Comparing Iberian cities of empire


Venue: Ruskin Room (Cohen Quad)

Stuart Schwartz, ‘Cities of empire: Mexico and Bahia in the sixteenth century’, Journal of Inter-American Studies 11:4 (1969): 616-637;

Alejandra B. Osorio, Inventing Lima: Baroque modernity in Peru’s South Sea metropolis (2008), Ch. 2 (‘Lima es corte: The viceroy as cultural capital’, 57-80)

Catarina Madeira Santos, ‘Luanda: A colonial city between Africa and the Atlantic, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, in Liam M. Borckey (ed.), Portuguese colonial cities in the early modern world (2008) 249-272.