Manuel Perez-Garcia - Blood, Land and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Blood, Land and Power

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The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period

MANUEL PEREZ-GARCIA

Manuel Perez-Garcia, 2021

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DOI 10.16922/bloodlandpower

This research has been sponsored and financially supported from the GECEM (Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 1680-1840) Project hosted by the University Pablo de Olavide, UPO (Seville, Spain), www.gecem.eu. The GECEM Project is funded by the ERC (European Research Council)-Starting Grant, under the European Unions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, ref. 679371. The Principal Investigator is Professor Manuel Perez-Garcia (Distinguished Researcher at UPO).

Cover image: Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, The Capitulation of Granada (1882), oil on canvas, coll. Senado de Espaa, Madrid; by permission, Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo.

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To my father Manuel Prez Garca who has set an outstanding example of perseverance, dedication, love, and passion to his work in the medical profession. His altruistic and generous service to the care of the community deserves full recognition, being an example to follow for the education and direction of the family. Without your support and your example of commitment and enthusiasm to your work, I would never have been able to write this book.

The family is the stronghold to keep the values, ethics and unity of our society.

Over recent decades the traditional languages and literatures model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and area studies approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa.

In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.

This book is the result of the academic actions and activities of the GECEM (Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 16801840, www.gecem.eu) Project. The workshops and academic forums in which I have participated since GECEM started in June 2016, in Tokyo, Beijing, Boston, Shanghai, Oxford, Paris, Vancouver, Seville, Mexico City, Guadalajara, San Jos (Costa Rica) and Murcia have served to obtain feedback from outstanding scholars and improve upon the ideas and early drafts of this book.

I wish to acknowledge the financial support of the European Research Council (ERC)-Starting Grant, under the European Unions Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, at the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) in Seville (Spain), which acts as European host for GECEM. The academic collaboration with my colleague and friend Professor Lucio de Sousa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) has helped and encouraged me to undertake my career as a historian in China and in the 2011 founding of the