دانلود کتاب The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge

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Appreciations\nContent\nIllustrations\nIntroduction\nI The king – all-seeing and blind\n 1 The spider in the web: Philip II and the Escorial\n 2 The center’s eyes and ears: cognition and communication\n 3 The idea and imagery of the watchful ruler\n 4 Observation and punishment: The inquisitorial legal culture\n 5 Observation and reward: Distributive justice\n 6 The blindness of the king and the corridors of power\nII Knowledge as the ruler’s postulate\n 1 Integra informatio: Empirical methods in the Late Middle Ages\n 2 Ex certa scientia: The absolutist appeal to certain knowledge\n 3 Somos informados: Linking information to decisions\nIII Strolls through the world. The epistemic setting of the court\n 1 The Spanish court\n 2 Spaces of knowledge\n 3 Media of knowledge\n 4 Land recording projects in Spain\nIV The authorities of colonial rule\n 1 The Casa de la Contratación: Nautical knowledge becomes political\n 2 The Council of the Indies\n 3 Institution-building in Spanish America\nV Knowledge in the setting of colonial rule\n 1 The vigilant triangle\n 2 Beginnings of knowledge acquisition\n 3 Early initiatives: land recording, control, and participation\n 4 Objectivity as technique for control and exoneration\n 5 Listen, describe, and decide: the viceroy’s court\nVI Entera noticia: Ovando’s project of complete knowledge\n 1 America cannot be understood: The path to reform\n 2 The Visitator’s work\n 3 Positions in the reform discourse\n 4 The Ovandian Reform’s measures\n 4.1 Compiling colonial law\n 4.2 The Chief Cosmographer-Chronicler of America\n 4.3 The Law on the Permanent Description of America\nVII Practices of knowledge acquisition\n 1 Mirror on the world\n 2 Traveling science\n 3 The permanent description of America\n 4 Interrogative methods\n 5 The questions\n 6 The answers\nVIII Consulting: scenarios for the application of knowledge\n 1 Authorities without eyes: The dilemma of the court chronicler\n 2 Everyday decision-making: The epistemic setting of the Council\n 2.1 The little tools of colonial knowledge\n 2.2 The performance of media and mediators\nIX Conclusions\nAppendix\n 1 Abbreviations\n 2 Printed sources\n 3 Books, chapters, and journal articles\n 4 Index