The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500-1800

Download or read book The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500-1800 written by Stefan Hanß and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the Mediterranean as a crucial part of the social and cultural fabric of the early modern Habsburg world. The sea was a stage on which Habsburg history was made and unmade. The Habsburg Mediterranean was a space where constant changes and exchanges took place, touching hierarchies, power-relationships, commerce and the everyday actions of people. The cases in point focus on the significance of the Mediterranean as a site of transporting ideas, people, plants, animals and objects. These flows drew the Iberian and Central European branches of the Habsburg dynasty into overlapping, mutually interactive and at times competing relations.