Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 277071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daviken |
| FAMILY NAME | Studnicki-Gizbert |
| SIGNATURE | STUDNICKI-GIZBERT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Afterword
Colonial Cataclysms
Bradley Skopyk's book is an innovative social and landscape history of climate in central Mexico under Spanish rule. This was the time of the Little Ice Age—whose final chapter marked one of the wettest and strongest climate events of the Holocene—and a subsequent phase of unprecedented flooding and soil erosion.The book offers a precise documentation of precipitation and weather events over some 300 years. To do so, Skopyk draws on a remarkable …
Stuart G. McCook, Coffee Is Not Forever
Urban Indians in a Silver City
Velasco Murillo offers an important contribution to our understanding of the indigenous labor migrations toward the mines of Spanish America. Mining was one of the central pillars of this colonial political economy. At its apogee in the late eighteenth century, the sector encompassed hundreds of mining districts, many of which were thriving towns and even cities. From Mexico to the Andes, these urban populations were primarily composed of indigen…
Canadian mining in Latin America (1990 to present)
Since the early 1990s Canadian mining companies extended their presence in Latin America in unprecedented numbers and ways. This article presents a historical synthesis of this phenomenon. It shows Canadian overseas mining as predominantly focused on exploration and precious metal mining; traces its origins in the nexus between new techniques and hubs of speculative capital; and shows the political innovations produced by this commodity frontier,…
The emergence of transnational “natural commons” strategies in Canada and Latin America
This introduction examines the socio-ecological conflicts and global activism generated by the activities of large-scale extractive industries (mining and oil) in Canada and Latin America through the lenses of five authors: Karyn Keenan; Liisa North and Laura Young; Luis Ángel Saavedra; and Henry Veltmeyer. It argues that although the exploitation of natural resources has been at the heart of the Latin American political economy since the colonia…
The Environmental Dynamics of a Colonial Fuel-Rush
This essay is part of a larger project that investigates the environmental effects of mining in Mexico. Although mining played a critical role in the economic, political, and social development of Spanish American colonies, and although it has consequently received extensive attention by historians, there exists no serious study of its environmental dimensions. The study establishes the overall rhythms and scales of fuel wood consumption—the main…
Representing the Market
This chapter discusses how leading members of the Nation entrenched themselves within the life of the royal court in Madrid. They allied themselves to key members of the aristocracy, including the count-duke of Olivares, favorite to Philip IV, and the leading statesman of imperial Spain. These alliances added a political dimension to the more economic affairs of the Portuguese Nation in Madrid, and opened the door to administrative offices, seats…
Epilogue
This chapter discusses the aftermath of the unraveling of the core transatlantic networks of the Portuguese Nation. The end of the Nation engendered the beginning of new communities, each following its own trajectory in the broader evolution of the Atlantic.
The Nation Unraveled
This chapter relates the story of the Nation and the empire from the early 17th century to the restoration of the kingdom of Portugal's political sovereignty in 1640. It tracks the critiques and opposition that various groups and institutions within the Spanish empire built up against the Nation. Doing so helps illustrate how a relationship once founded on interdependence could be pushed toward fracture and how this movement led to the unraveling…
Ocean, Empire, Nation
This introductory chapter presents an overview of the story of the Portuguese Nation. The history of the Portuguese Nation reveals a community that made the Ocean Sea its home, and the maritime trades its sustenance. The Portuguese mercantile nation did not so much claim sovereignty over the Atlantic as dwell upon it. This book explores the quality of this abiding. It shows how the men and women of the Nation built and maintained a collectivity t…
“Cada Casa, Un Mundo”
This chapter examines the inner dynamics of the Portuguese merchant houses and the worlds they contained. The members of Portuguese merchant houses maintained tight and lasting bonds among themselves even if they were physically separated from each other by the span of oceans and continents. To bring a house into being required the bridging of both geographic and social distance, which was accomplished through interpersonal links. Various such ti…
Portuguese Nation and Spanish Empire in the Sixteenth Century
This chapter shows how the transition into the early modern period for the Portuguese was carried by a process of overseas extension—into the Atlantic basin and then into the Indian Ocean and seas of Asia. It was accompanied by fundamental transformations of their cultural makeup and political arrangements. Each of these entwined around the other, and all were tightly raveled to the history of what would become, over the course of the 16th centur…
Settling Upon the Seas
A Vast Machine
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea
With the opening of sea routes in the 15th century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early 17th century, this nation without a state had created a re…
Cartagena de Indias y la región histórica del Caribe, 1580-1640
In the early seventeenth century, Cartagena de Indias was—with Havana and Veracruz— one of the three major hubs of the Spanish Caribbean’s commercial system. Despite this importance, the port city has received surprisingly little in the way of serious and sustained attention by colonialists—until now. Antonino Vidal Ortega’s study of Cartagena de Indias not only provides a thorough reconstitution of the city’s commercial and social life but also …
La ' nation ' portugaise Réseaux marchands dans l'espace atlantique à l'époque moderne
L'article examine les marchands de la ' nation ' portugaise, actifs dans le commerce atlantique des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, afin de mieux comprendre les dynamiques qui animaient la constitution des liens d'affiliation commerciaux. Un examen des données démontrant que ni les explications basées sur les liens dits ' primordiaux ' ni celles fondées sur l'intérêt rationnel ne peuvent expliquer la logique sous-jacente à la formation des réseaux, l'aute…
From Agents to Consulado
Este trabajo pretende ser una revisión de las interpretaciones que ven en las relaciones entre los mercaderes de la Nueva España y los de Sevilla una subordinación más amplia del comercio colonial bajo el dominio del comercio metropolitano. El trabajo muestra cómo un conjunto de factores permitieron la constitución de una clase autónoma de mercaderes centrados en la ciudad de México. Primero, la reconfiguración del monopolio sevillano frente a lo…
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea
With the opening of sea routes in the 15th century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early 17th century, this nation without a state had created a re…
The Environmental Dynamics of a Colonial Fuel-Rush
This essay is part of a larger project that investigates the environmental effects of mining in Mexico. Although mining played a critical role in the economic, political, and social development of Spanish American colonies, and although it has consequently received extensive attention by historians, there exists no serious study of its environmental dimensions. The study establishes the overall rhythms and scales of fuel wood consumption—the main…
Canadian mining in Latin America (1990 to present)
Since the early 1990s Canadian mining companies extended their presence in Latin America in unprecedented numbers and ways. This article presents a historical synthesis of this phenomenon. It shows Canadian overseas mining as predominantly focused on exploration and precious metal mining; traces its origins in the nexus between new techniques and hubs of speculative capital; and shows the political innovations produced by this commodity frontier,…
La ' nation ' portugaise Réseaux marchands dans l'espace atlantique à l'époque moderne
L'article examine les marchands de la ' nation ' portugaise, actifs dans le commerce atlantique des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, afin de mieux comprendre les dynamiques qui animaient la constitution des liens d'affiliation commerciaux. Un examen des données démontrant que ni les explications basées sur les liens dits ' primordiaux ' ni celles fondées sur l'intérêt rationnel ne peuvent expliquer la logique sous-jacente à la formation des réseaux, l'aute…
From Agents to Consulado
Este trabajo pretende ser una revisión de las interpretaciones que ven en las relaciones entre los mercaderes de la Nueva España y los de Sevilla una subordinación más amplia del comercio colonial bajo el dominio del comercio metropolitano. El trabajo muestra cómo un conjunto de factores permitieron la constitución de una clase autónoma de mercaderes centrados en la ciudad de México. Primero, la reconfiguración del monopolio sevillano frente a lo…
La ' nation ' portugaise Réseaux marchands dans l'espace atlantique à l'époque moderne
L'article examine les marchands de la ' nation ' portugaise, actifs dans le commerce atlantique des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, afin de mieux comprendre les dynamiques qui animaient la constitution des liens d'affiliation commerciaux. Un examen des données démontrant que ni les explications basées sur les liens dits ' primordiaux ' ni celles fondées sur l'intérêt rationnel ne peuvent expliquer la logique sous-jacente à la formation des réseaux, l'aute…
Cartagena de Indias y la región histórica del Caribe, 1580-1640
In the early seventeenth century, Cartagena de Indias was—with Havana and Veracruz— one of the three major hubs of the Spanish Caribbean’s commercial system. Despite this importance, the port city has received surprisingly little in the way of serious and sustained attention by colonialists—until now. Antonino Vidal Ortega’s study of Cartagena de Indias not only provides a thorough reconstitution of the city’s commercial and social life but also …
Representing the Market
This chapter discusses how leading members of the Nation entrenched themselves within the life of the royal court in Madrid. They allied themselves to key members of the aristocracy, including the count-duke of Olivares, favorite to Philip IV, and the leading statesman of imperial Spain. These alliances added a political dimension to the more economic affairs of the Portuguese Nation in Madrid, and opened the door to administrative offices, seats…
Epilogue
This chapter discusses the aftermath of the unraveling of the core transatlantic networks of the Portuguese Nation. The end of the Nation engendered the beginning of new communities, each following its own trajectory in the broader evolution of the Atlantic.
The Nation Unraveled
This chapter relates the story of the Nation and the empire from the early 17th century to the restoration of the kingdom of Portugal's political sovereignty in 1640. It tracks the critiques and opposition that various groups and institutions within the Spanish empire built up against the Nation. Doing so helps illustrate how a relationship once founded on interdependence could be pushed toward fracture and how this movement led to the unraveling…
Ocean, Empire, Nation
This introductory chapter presents an overview of the story of the Portuguese Nation. The history of the Portuguese Nation reveals a community that made the Ocean Sea its home, and the maritime trades its sustenance. The Portuguese mercantile nation did not so much claim sovereignty over the Atlantic as dwell upon it. This book explores the quality of this abiding. It shows how the men and women of the Nation built and maintained a collectivity t…
“Cada Casa, Un Mundo”
This chapter examines the inner dynamics of the Portuguese merchant houses and the worlds they contained. The members of Portuguese merchant houses maintained tight and lasting bonds among themselves even if they were physically separated from each other by the span of oceans and continents. To bring a house into being required the bridging of both geographic and social distance, which was accomplished through interpersonal links. Various such ti…
Portuguese Nation and Spanish Empire in the Sixteenth Century
This chapter shows how the transition into the early modern period for the Portuguese was carried by a process of overseas extension—into the Atlantic basin and then into the Indian Ocean and seas of Asia. It was accompanied by fundamental transformations of their cultural makeup and political arrangements. Each of these entwined around the other, and all were tightly raveled to the history of what would become, over the course of the 16th centur…
Settling Upon the Seas
A Vast Machine
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea
With the opening of sea routes in the 15th century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early 17th century, this nation without a state had created a re…
The Environmental Dynamics of a Colonial Fuel-Rush
This essay is part of a larger project that investigates the environmental effects of mining in Mexico. Although mining played a critical role in the economic, political, and social development of Spanish American colonies, and although it has consequently received extensive attention by historians, there exists no serious study of its environmental dimensions. The study establishes the overall rhythms and scales of fuel wood consumption—the main…
The emergence of transnational “natural commons” strategies in Canada and Latin America
This introduction examines the socio-ecological conflicts and global activism generated by the activities of large-scale extractive industries (mining and oil) in Canada and Latin America through the lenses of five authors: Karyn Keenan; Liisa North and Laura Young; Luis Ángel Saavedra; and Henry Veltmeyer. It argues that although the exploitation of natural resources has been at the heart of the Latin American political economy since the colonia…
Canadian mining in Latin America (1990 to present)
Since the early 1990s Canadian mining companies extended their presence in Latin America in unprecedented numbers and ways. This article presents a historical synthesis of this phenomenon. It shows Canadian overseas mining as predominantly focused on exploration and precious metal mining; traces its origins in the nexus between new techniques and hubs of speculative capital; and shows the political innovations produced by this commodity frontier,…
Urban Indians in a Silver City
Velasco Murillo offers an important contribution to our understanding of the indigenous labor migrations toward the mines of Spanish America. Mining was one of the central pillars of this colonial political economy. At its apogee in the late eighteenth century, the sector encompassed hundreds of mining districts, many of which were thriving towns and even cities. From Mexico to the Andes, these urban populations were primarily composed of indigen…
Stuart G. McCook, Coffee Is Not Forever
Afterword
Colonial Cataclysms
Bradley Skopyk's book is an innovative social and landscape history of climate in central Mexico under Spanish rule. This was the time of the Little Ice Age—whose final chapter marked one of the wettest and strongest climate events of the Holocene—and a subsequent phase of unprecedented flooding and soil erosion.The book offers a precise documentation of precipitation and weather events over some 300 years. To do so, Skopyk draws on a remarkable …
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