George Clay

Biographic Data

ID6902289
NAMEGeorge Clay
GIVEN NAMESGeorge
FAMILY NAMEClay
SIGNATURECLAY G
AFFILIATIONSGeorgetown University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The Emotional Dimensions of Colonial Rule in the Sixteenth-Century Andes

    George ClayARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2025

    This article examines the writings of the Jesuit José de Acosta (1540–1600) on Andean governance at the time of the Great Resettlement (a late-sixteenth-century Spanish attempt to resettle Andean people in new, consolidated settlements under Spanish supervision). It argues that Spanish authorities in the Andes sought to manage the emotions of Andean people, and thought about emotions as tools of colonial governance. Acosta also measured the succe…

  • Sinful Worlds, Divine Purposes, and Justifications of Slavery in Alonso de Sandoval’s De instauranda Aethiopum salute

    Open AccessGeorge ClayARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2024

    To twenty-first-century eyes, the question of how Jesuits could minister to enslaved people, while simultaneously enslaving them, can seem hard to resolve. This article examines the work of the Jesuit Alonso de Sandoval (1576–1652), De instauranda Aethiopum salute , as a window into the worldview of a Jesuit who was also an enslaver. The apparent tension between the two Jesuit activities of ministry and slaveholding has often led to distorted rep…

  • The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Vol. 3

    Robin C Law, William Cross [Crosse] et al.BOOKThe English in West Africa,…2006

  • Tolstoy's Phoenix

    John Ellison, George R Clay et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2000