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Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire
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Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
Author: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Year: 2014
Number of pages: 280
Format: EPUB
File size: 25,3 MB
Language: ENG

The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance?paper?over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire.

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