Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Iberian Empires and a Theory of Early Modern Globalization
1. Precious Metals in the Americas at the Beginning of the Global Economy
2. A New Moses: Vasco de Quiroga\'s Hospitals and the Transformation of \"Indians\" from \"Bárbaros\" to \"Pobres\"
3. Religion, Caste, and Race in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires: Local and Global Dimensions
4. The Portuguese Inquisition and Colonial Expansion: The \"Honor\" of Being Tried by the Holy Office
5. Jesuit Networks and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Alonso de Sandoval\'s Naturaleza, policía sagrada y profana (1627)
6. Household Challenges: The Laws of Slaveholding and the Practices of Freedom in Colonial Peru
7. The Reason of Freedom and the Freedom of Reason: The Neo-Scholastic Critique of African Slavery and Its Impact on the Construction of the Nineteenth-Century Republic in Spanish America
8. Jesuits and Indigenous Subjects in the Global Culture of Letters: Production, Circulation, and Adaptation of Missionary Texts in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
9. The Iridescent Enconchado
10. \"Idolatrous Images\" and \"True Images\": European Visual Culture and its Circulation in Early Modern China
11. Barlaam and Josaphat in Early Modern Spain and the Colonial Philippines: Spiritual Exercises of Freedom at the Center and Periphery
Afterword: Reimagining Colonial Latin America from a Global Perspective
Contributors
Index