German conquistadors in Venezuela the Welsers' colony, racialized capitalism, and cultural memory / Giovanna Montenegro.
| Author/creator | Montenegro, Giovanna, 1981- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022] |
| Description | xvii, 352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Welsers' colony, racialized capitalism, and cultural memory |
| Abstract | "Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the strangest and often-ignored episodes in the conquest and colonization of the Americas--the governance of the Province of Venezuela by the Welsers, a German banking family from Augsburg, in the sixteenth century. Using a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book chronicles the Welsers' business expansion beyond banking to colonization and the slave trade in the Spanish Indies and the eventual failure of the colony. Montenegro follows the money that financed the Habsburg empire, tackling a multifaceted, multilingual corpus of primary documents. She examines numerous legal documents, from contracts granting colonization and slave trade rights (capitulaciones, asientos) to complex financial transactions (interests, exchange rates). She also analyzes maps, literary texts, and various chronicles and poems of the period. The book examines a history of violence perpetrated upon enslaved Indigenous and African people, but it is also the story of how different generations across the Atlantic, up to Nazi Germany in the twentieth century, have remembered and recalled this Welser period of governance in Venezuela to serve other social and political purposes. Montenegro positions her research in relation to current critical discussion on inequality, slavery, White supremacy, and neoconservative nationalist movements in contemporary Latin America and Germany. German Conquistadors in Venezuela is a stimulating read. The book will appeal to Latin Americanists, Germanists, early modernists, and scholars and students interested in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and memory studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-339) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022946247 |
| ISBN | 9780268203214 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0268203210 (hardback) |
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| ISBN | (Epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |