Mail concessions for a global empire: correos mayores in the Spanish Empire in America (1514-1620)

Ireland and the Spanish Empire, 1600-1815

Óscar Recio Morales 304pp. Dublin 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84682-183-7. €65.00 In the wake of the Irish-Spanish defeat at Kinsale (1602), through army careers and the concession of nobility titles, Spanish kings placed the Irish exiled lords and gentry in an advantageous position on a par with the nobility in the early modern Spanish world. Imposition of orthodox Catholicism within the Spanish realms ...

Games of Empire : Global Capitalism and Video

In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter expand an earlier study of “the video game industry as an aspect of an emerging postindustrial, post-Fordist capitalism” (xxix) to argue that videogames are “exemplary media of Empire” (xxix). Their notion of “Empire” is based on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (2000), which characterizes the contemporary world order as a dece...

Suicide in the Byzantine Empire.

Studying the suicide in the Byzantine Empire is difficult due to the limited number of references to it. Their number is greater in the early years of the Empire, mainly because of the persecution of Christians and gradually decreases. The attitude of the Church also gradually hardens, as well as the law. The law was strictly followed to the West, but as far as the Eastern Empire is concerned t...

The British Empire Exhibition

Globish and the empire.