TY - BOOK AU - Martín Marcos,David TI - People of the Iberian borderlands: community and conflict between Spain and Portugal, 1640-1715 T2 - Early modern Iberian history in global contexts SN - 9781003164135 U1 - 327.460469/090932 23/eng/20220505 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Borderlands KW - Spain KW - History KW - Portugal KW - HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / Historiography KW - HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century KW - Foreign relations KW - 17th century KW - Boundaries N1 - Abbreviations -- List of maps and illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Portuguese of Castile, the Castilians of Portugal -- Chapter 2: The unrepresented -- Chapter 3: Refuge and destruction -- Chapter 4: Contraband, modus vivendi -- Chapter 5: On local truces -- Chapter 6: A grand yet local peace -- Chapter 7: 'A wolflike urge' -- Chapter 8: A rayano perspective on borderland custom houses -- Chapter 9: Restored sovereignties -- Chapter 10: 'At the back of the world' -- Chapter 11: Innumerable unresolved conflicts -- Chapter 12: The return of Mars -- Conclusion -- Bibliography N2 - "This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish-Portuguese borderlands during the Early Modern Period. It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities by external narratives. Thus, if traditionally border people were reduced by some scholars to actors of a struggle against a supposedly imposed border; in a more modern perspective, their behaviors have been also framed in bottom-up processes of consolidation of spaces of sovereignty, in a no less limiting vision. Faced with both approaches, the objective of this work is not to deny them but, first and foremost, to situate the experiences of border populations outside of logics that I understand as originally alien to themselves, and to highlight their own subjectivity. Lastly, it also demonstrates that most of the practices developed by border people were fundamentally aimed at defending their local communities. It will be useful for both audiences interested in Early Modern Iberia or Border Studies in a bottom-up perspective"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003164135 ER -