TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ponce Vázquez,Juan José
TI  - Islanders and empire: smuggling and political defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 
T2  - Cambridge latin american studies
SN  - 9781108702485
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Colonialismo
KW  - 15..-16
KW  - Contrabando
KW  - La Española
KW  - Historia económica
KW  - Historia
N1  - Bibliografía. - Índice
N2  - Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes how residents of Hispaniola actively negotiated and transformed the meaning and reach of imperial bureaucracies and institutions for their own benefit. By co-opting the governing and judicial powers of local and imperial institutions on the island, residents could take advantage of, and even dominate, the contraband trade that reached the island's shores. In doing so, they altered the course of the European inter-imperial struggles in the Caribbean by limiting, redirecting, or suppressing the Spanish crown's policies, thus taking control of their destinies and that of their neighbors in Hispaniola, other Spanish Caribbean territories, and the Spanish empire in the region. Provides a rare, on-the-ground study of a Spanish Caribbean society in the seventeenth century, a previously understudied period and region. Discusses significant examples of colonial peripheries and borderlands in shaping overall imperial governance. Features a strong narrative style as a key feature of historical inquiry
ER  -