Patterns in Early Spanish Overseas Expansion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3201317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John E Kicza (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229 |
| Publication date | 1992-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2947271 |
| OpenAlex | W2334682597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
S PANISH expeditions ventured to the American mainland in the second and third decades of the sixteenth century only after an extended process of overseas expansion.' Spain had been trading and colonizing in Atlantic waters since the I300s and had competed with Portugal for control over the Atlantic islands and the west coast of Africa.2 Spain's movement into the Atlantic largely followed a mercantile approach embodying commercial practices also employed by Portugal and Genoa in dealing with non-Western peoples. This was to be expected, as the ports of southern Spain had long been integrated into the Mediterranean mercantile world. But Spanish expansion also enacted a new approach-that of full settlement or Reconquest-which emerged during Christian Spain's seven centuries of episodic warfare against Islamic Moorish kingdoms on the peninsula. This struggle reached a successful conclusion just as the Spanish undertook systematic colonization across the Atlantic.3 This article examines the practices and institutions brought by the
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2021 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |