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Название: Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery Автор: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia Издательство: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804787050 Год: 2014 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 280 Размер: 25,3 МБ Язык: Английский
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.