ISBN:
9780268203214
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 352 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
DDC:
987.03
Keywords:
Amerikanische Geschichte
;
Colonialism & imperialism
;
Europäische Geschichte
;
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
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HISTORY / Latin America / South America
;
History of the Americas
;
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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POL042060
;
POL045000
;
Politics & government
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Politik und Staat
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
;
Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei
;
Slavery & abolition of slavery
;
Deutschland
;
Germany
;
South America
;
Südamerika
;
Welser Familie
;
Venezuela
;
Kolonialverwaltung
;
Kapitalismus
;
Kolonialismus
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Abstract:
This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memorialization of the period through to the twentieth century.Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the strangest and often-ignored episodes in the conquest and colonization of the Americas--the governance of the Province of Venezuela by the Welsers, a German banking family from Augsburg, in the sixteenth century. Using a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book chronicles the Welsers' business expansion beyond banking to colonization and the slave trade in the Spanish Indies and the eventual failure of the colony. Montenegro follows the money that financed the Habsburg empire, tackling a multifaceted, multilingual corpus of primary documents. She examines numerous legal documents, from contracts granting colonization and slave trade rights (capitulaciones, asientos) to complex financial transactions (interests, exchange rates). She also analyzes maps, literary texts, and various chronicles and poems of the period. The book examines a history of violence perpetrated upon enslaved Indigenous and African people, but it is also the story of how different generations across the Atlantic, up to Nazi Germany in the twentieth century, have remembered and recalled this Welser period of governance in Venezuela to serve other social and political purposes. Montenegro positions her research in relation to current critical discussion on inequality, slavery, White supremacy, and neoconservative nationalist movements in contemporary Latin America and Germany. German Conquistadors in Venezuela is a stimulating read. The book will appeal to Latin Americanists, Germanists, early modernists, and scholars and students interested in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and memory studies
Description / Table of Contents:
List of FiguresIntroductionPART I: The Welsers: A History of their Merchant and Racialized Capitalism1. The Merchant Capitalism of the Welsers: Colonization, Commerce, Commodities, and Imperial Credit2. The Welsers' Racialized Merchant Capitalism in Venezuela: Early Modern SlaveryPART II: Narrative and Cartographic Representations of the Welsers in Venezuela (16th-18th centuries)3. Nikolaus Federmann's Indianische Historia: Failed Gifts and Translation as Strategies of the Welser Conquest of Venezuela4. Blood and Soil:Welser Venezuela Between Cartography and Genealogy5. "Foreign Governance:" The Welser Colony Remembered in Latin-American Colonial Literature (16th-18th Centuries)PART III: Cultural Memory of the Welser Colony in Germany and Latin America (19th-21st Centuries)6. The Ghost of Welser Venezuela in German Cultural Memory7. The Venezuelan View of German Conquest: Post-Independence Literature and HistoryConclusionEpilogue: Restitution and Commemoration-Debates in Germany TodayWorks Cited
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 316-339
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