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Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Emipres: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th-19th Centuries, Koldo Trapaga Monchet, Álvaro Aragón-Ruano, and Cristina Joanaz de Melo, eds (Routledge, 2023).
Introduction: The Game of the Demiurge in the Garden of Chronos: woods play hide-and-seek in the long run through sustainable management
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet, Álvaro Aragón-Ruano, Cristina Joanaz de Melo
1. The global timber trade and shipbuilding in the 16th-18th centuries: interdisciplinarity, research problems and the ForSEAdiscovery project
Ana Crespo Solana
2. Durable Forests in a Tensile State: Intensive and Extensive Approaches to Naval Forestry in Early Modern Spain
John T. Wing
3. Empirical silviculture and sustainability in the Basque Country during the Early Modern Period
Álvaro Aragón-Ruano
4. The sustainability of forests for shipbuilding. A historical-archaeological view of Biscayan shipbuilding and its forestry tradition in the 16th-17th centuries
Beñat Eguiluz-Miranda
5. The beginnings of the preservation and development of Spanish forestry for naval construction: the legal and silvicultural enquiries conducted by the Royal Council of Castile in Guipúzcoa (1569)
Alfredo José Martínez-González
6. “In All this Kingdom there Is No Timber”. Wood for the king’s galleys: exploitation and conservation of the Catalan forests in the age of Lepanto
A. Jorge Aguilera-López
7. A destruction that preserves: maritime warfare, empirical forestry and sustainability in Portugal (13-17th centuries)
Koldo Trapaga-Monchet
8. Sustainability assessment of forest resources in the geographical area of application of the 1546 Cork Oak Law
Raúl Romero-Calcerrada and Koldo Trapaga-Monchet
9. Logistics, sustainability and river transport of wood supplies from the Navarrese Pyrenees for the Royal Navy at the end of the 18th century
Óscar Riezu-Elizalde
10. Forests in Portugal, 1750s-1820s: A History of Forests Compensation
Cristina Joanaz de Melo
The American Historical Review 123/5 (2018):
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea reviews Antonio Feros, Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of RAce and Nation in the Hispanic World (Harvard, 2017).
Paul Niell reviews Antonio Urquízar-Herrera, Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography (Oxford, 2017).
Antonio Berrera reviews John T. Wing, Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, c. 1500-1750 (Brill, 2015).
Felipe Fernández-Armesto reviews Jodi Campbell, At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain (Nebraska, 2017).
Renaissance Quarterly 69/4 (2016):
Hugo Ribeiro da Silva, “Projecting Power: Cathedral Chapters and Public Rituals in Portugal, 1560-1650.”
Reviews:
Enrique González González reviews Gilbert Tournoy, ed. La correspondence de Guillaime Budé et Juan Luis Vives.
Carmen Ripollés reviews Ilenia Colón Mendoza, The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández: Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain.
Pablo González Tornel reviews Fernando Checa Cremades and Laura Fernández-González, eds, Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs.
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra reviews John T. Wing, Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Spain, c. 1500-1750.
Linda Newson reviews Trevor P. Hall, ed. and trans., Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories.
Bernadette Andrea reviews Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Barbara Fuchs and Emily Weissbourg, eds.
Renaissance Quarterly 69/4 (2016):
Carmen Ripollés reviews Ilenia Colón Mendoza, The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández: Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain (Ashgate, 2015).
Pablo González Tornel reviews Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs, Fernando Checa Cremades and Laura Fernández-González, eds (Ashgate, 2015).
The Journal of Early Modern History 19/4 (2015):
Ryan Dominic Crewe, “Pacific Purgatory: Spanish Dominicans, Chinese Sangleys, and the Entanglement of Mission and Commerce in Manila, 1580-1620.”
John T. Wing reviews The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History: Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker, Tonio Andrade and William Reger, eds (Ashgate, 2012).
Alejandro Cañeque reviews Scott Eastman, Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759-1823 (LSU Press, 2013).
Rebecca Earle reviews Nathan Wachtel, The Faith of Remembrance: Marrano Labyrinths (Penn, 2013).
James Nelson Novoa reviews Jonathan Ray, After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry (NYU Press, 2013).
John T. Wing, Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, c. 1500-1750 (Brill, 2015).
The Journal of Early Modern History 18/4 (2014):
Articles:
François Soyer, “Manuel I of Portugal and the End of the Toleration of Islam in Castile: Marriage Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Portuguese Imperialism in Renaissance Europe, 1495-1505.”
John T. Wing, “Spanish Forest Reconnaissance and the Search for Shipbuilding Timer in an Era of Naval Resurgence, 1737-1739.”
Andrew A. Cashner, “Playing Cards at the Eucharistic Table: Music, Theology, and Society in a Corpus Christi Villancico from Colonial Mexico, 1628.”
Review:
Kevin Ingram reviews Amy Aronson-Friedman and Gregory B. Kaplan, eds, Marginal Voices: Studies in the Converso Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain (Brill, 2012).
Again, I’m sorry that I neglected to get these up before the conference began, when it might have been helpful. But in the interest of trying to be comprehensive, and letting us all know what our colleagues are working on, here are the early modern panels that took place last month at the ASPHS Conference in Albuquerque, NM:
Friday, April 5:
SESSION 2
Grappling with Islam in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean
Comment: Andrew W. Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)
“Christian Myths of a Muslim Ruler: Saladin in El Conde Lucanor”
Maria Pluta (University of Notre Dame)
“‘I am a Muslim and That is What I Want to Be’: A First-Hand Account of the Expulsion of the Moriscos”
Libby Nutting (UT-Austin)
“Reversing Empires and Reversing Sorrow in a Portuguese Planctus”
José Miguel Martínez Torrejón (Queens College)
SESSION 4
Early Modern Portugal and Print Culture Across Borders
Organizer: Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University)
Comment: Jack Norton (Normandale Community College)
“Pamphlets, Politics, and Religion: The Whitehall Conferences and the Quest for Jewish Readmission into England”
María Ana Valez (Yale University)
“Portuguese Pamphlets and the History of the Present, ca. 1700-1750”
Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University)
“Reporting the Lisbon Earthquake”
Mark Molesky (Seton Hall University)
SESSION 5
From Crisis to Crisis: The Reign of the Junta Central, 1808-1810
Chair: Scott Eastman (Creighton University)
Comment: Sean Perrone (Saint Anselm College)
“The Republican Origins of Spanish Liberalism”
Alberto Sahagun (Bucknell University)
“The Brief but Effective Rule of the Junta Central over Western Andalusia”
Charles Nicholas Saenz (UC-San Diego)
“The Junta Central and the Governing of the Indies: The Case of the Captaincy General of Venezuela”
Olga Gonzalez-Silen (Harvard University)
SESSION 6
Land and Power in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Comment:
Marta V. Vicente (University of Kansas)
“New Mexico Acequiasas Living Simulacra of Medieval Peninsular Irrigation Communities”
Thomas F. Glick (Boston University)
“Forests of the Ultramar: The Conservation and Exploitation of Timber Sources in Colonial Shipyards in the Americans and the Philippines, c. 1500-c.1750″
John T. Wing (College of Staten Island-CUNY)
“Eucalypts in Northern Ecuador: An Environmental History”
Kenneth Kincaid (Purdue University North Central)
PLENARY SESSION I
Panel in Honor of William D. and Carla R. Phillips
Carla and Wim’s students and colleagues gather to recognize and honor their careers and contributions to the Spanish historical profession.
Chair: Jodi Campbell, Texas Christian University
Comment:
Luis Morera, Baylor University
Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington
Anne Marie Wolf, University of Maine-Farmington
Dan Crews, University of Central Missouri
Jack Norton, Normandale Community College
SESSION 8
Troubled Identities: Jews and Conversos in the Old and New Worlds
Organizer: Roger L. Martinez (UC-Colorado Springs)
Comment: Amy Aronson-Friedman (Valdosta State University)
“Crisis and Opportunity: The Case of Blanca of Girona in Late Fourteenth Century Catalonia”
Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto) and
Dana Wessell Lightfoot (University of Northern British Columbia)
“Frameworks: Spanish History, Identity, and Converso Historiography”
Roger L. Martinez (UC-Colorado Springs)
SESSION 11
Daily Life in Early Modern Iberia
Chair: Dan Crews (University of Central Missouri)
Comment: Allyson M. Poska (University of Mary Washington)
“Daily Life and Living Conditions in the Inquisitorial Prison at Valladolid, 1572-1577”
J. Michael Fulton (Whitworth University)
“‘The Lords of the Seven Parishes’: Silk Workers, Popular Politics, and Revolt in Early Modern Seville”
Igor Knezevic (University of Pennsylvania)
“Race, Gender, and Justice in Sixteenth-Century Portugal”
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (University of Winnipeg)
“The Portuguese Inquisition, the Intermediate Groups and the Control over the Peripheries (17-18th centuries)”
Fernanda Olival (Universidade de Évora)
Saturday, April 6
SESSION 13
Identity and Empire: Atlantic and Pacific Perspectives
Chair: Enrique Sanabria (University of New Mexico)
“The Many Faces and the Far Reaches of Creolism in Habsburg Peru”
Guillermo García Montufar (Johns Hopkins University)
“The Spanish Empire And The Pacific World: Mexican ‘Vagrants, Idlers, And Troublemakers’ in the Philippines, 1765-1821”
Eva Mehl (UNC-Wilmington)
“Exile, Captivity, and Freedom: The Blanco Whites and Spain’s War of Independence, 1808-1814”
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (Tufts University)
“Mexican Nationalism as Seen by a Spanish Lieutenant in his Personal Diary, 1821-1822”
Claudia Guarisco (El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C.)
SESSION 14
Authorial Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
Organizer: Katherine van Liere (Calvin College)
Comment: Allyson M. Poska (University of Mary Washington)
“Habsburg Spain’s History Teacher: Ambrosio de Morales’s Coronica general and Antiguedades as Pedagogical Tools”
Katherine van Liere (Calvin College)
“Self-Fashioning, Novelistic Discourse and the Truth of History: Informaciones de servicio and Early Spanish Colonialism in the Southern United States”
Alexander Samson (University College-London)
“The Forging of an Intellectual Career: Inca Garcliaso de la Vega’s Self-Fashioning”
Fernando Rodriguez-Mansilla (Hobart & William Smith Colleges)
SESSION 16
Golden Anniversaries: J. H. Elliott’s Imperial Spain and Revolt of the Catalans after Fifty Years
Organized by: Xavier Gil (Universitat de Barcelona) and
Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University)
“The writing of Spanish history before and after 1963 (Spanish, including Catalan, and non-Spanish alike) and re-integrating Spain within European/world History”
Xavier Gil (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and
Antonio Zaldívar (UCLA)
“Restoring the Role of Human Agency”
James Boyden (Tulane University) and
Ruth MacKay (Stanford University)
“Promoting Comparative, Atlantic, and Global history”
Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University) and
Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh)
Response: Sir John H. Elliott (Oxford University)
PLENARY SESSION II
In Honor of Richard L. Kagan: Rethinking “Prescott’s Paradigm” – A New Paradigm for a New Millennium?
Chair: Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)
Response: Richard L. Kagan and Audience
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
Xavier Gil, Universitat de Barcelona
Kimberly Lynn, Western Washington University
Marta M. Vicente, University of Kansas
SESSION 17
Across the Ages: Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Religious Identity and Conversion
Organizer: Roger Martinez
Comment: Pilar Ryan (US Military Academy)
“Converso Identities in Late Medieval Spain: Intermediacy and Indeterminacy”
Elizabeth Koza (SUNY-New Paltz)
“Against the Current: Leocritia of Cordova’s Conversion to Christianity”
Micah K. Martin (UC-Irvine)
SESSION 20
Peace, War, and Royal Authority in the Hispanic World
Chair and Comment: Michelle Armstrong-Partida (UT-El Paso)
“Sovereignty and the Royal Peace in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1276”
Jennifer Speed (University of Dayton)
“Just War and the Christian Prince: Juan López de Palacios Rubios and Ideologies of Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish World”
Andrew W. Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)
“‘Having Served in the Troops’: The Appointment of Military Officers as Provincial Governors in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America”
Francisco Eissa-Barroso (El Colegio de Michoacán)
BANQUET
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ADRIAN SHUBERT
Sunday, April 7
SESSION 23
Sacred Art, Family, and Identity in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Chair and Comment: Luis Corteguera (University of Kansas)
“Music, Art, Theater, Syncretism, and Angels in New Spain”
Cesar Favila (University of Chicago)
“The Jesuit Reductions of Paraguay”
Maria Giulia Genghini (University of Notre Dame)
“Collecting the New World: Latin American Art in Habsburg Inventories”
Kate Holohan (NYU)
Environmental History 17.1 (Jan. 2012) features an article by John T. Wing, “Keeping Spain Afloat: State Forestry and Imperial Defense in the Sixteenth Century.”
The Journal of Early Modern History 2009 #6 features a review by John T. Wing of Faruk Tabak, The Waning of the Mediterranean 1550-1870: A Geohistorical Approach (Johns Hopkins, 2008).
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