German Conquistadors in Venezuela

German Conquistadors in Venezuela
Author :
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages : 475
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780268203207
ISBN-13 : 0268203202
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Book Synopsis German Conquistadors in Venezuela by : Giovanna Montenegro

Download or read book German Conquistadors in Venezuela written by Giovanna Montenegro and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


German Conquistadors in Venezuela Related Books

German Conquistadors in Venezuela
Language: en
Pages: 475
Authors: Giovanna Montenegro
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-15 - Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memorialization of
German Conquistadors in Venezuela
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Giovanna Montenegro
Categories: Electronic books
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 403
Authors: Ida Altman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diver
Germans in the Conquest of America
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Germán Arciniegas
Categories: America
Type: BOOK - Published: 1943 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Colonial Fantasies
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Susanne Zantop
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-09-10 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering