The New World from Europe and for the Europeans
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfiv.28.2015.15631Keywords:
Thomas Campanella, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Transatlantic Proyect, Hispanic Empire, IndiansAbstract
It is hard to measure the importance of the impact produced by the knowledge of a hitherto unknown continent in the thinking of early modern Europeans. This land, populated by plants and animals that find no comparison with those that made the stock of their knowledge, and by human beings with cultures and material heritages not comparable to those hitherto known.
The Spaniards were the forefront of European progress in the newly discovered lands in the sixteenth century. They had to face the expanded horizon of their experiences with the same material and intellectual weapons that had served them until 1492 to join Renaissance Europe. European and American historiography until the twentieth century show the success with which the Spaniards and Portuguese managed to impose their rule constructing vast colonial territories.
America was conceived in political projects of European and especially Spanish, first, as a tool to solve the demographic, economic, religious and social problems of the Old Continent. The Spanish Monarchy of Thomas Campanella exhibits a possible effect of such experience. Witness of the expansion of the known world by Europeans, conceived a project that goes beyond the Mediterranean space integrating the New World in the Hispanic Empire, but not immune to the effects of an eurocentric perspective. In this project, and correlatively, American Indians have a passive and marginal role.
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