Les acteurs de l'hégémonie hispanique, du monde à la péninsule Ibérique. (French)

The Actors of the Spanish Hegemony: From the World to the Iberian Peninsula. (English)

The formation and the hegemony of the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries cannot be understood without studying the diverse social and cultural phenomena that lie at its foundations. The expansion of Spanish and Portuguese power unleashed certain political and social processes in which the local populations of Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas were the main actors. Whether these populations were incorporated by consent or through force, or whether they were neighbors to Iberian power, their local tensions and their electoral choices became decisive in the eventual configuration of Spanish power and its evolution. The analysis of local politics thus becomes key to an understanding of events on a global scale. The history of the Spanish monarchy incorporates the violent process of its formation, its polycentrism, its relationship with the rest of the world, and, especially, the importance of ordinary actors: those that accepted it or those that fought against it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La compréhension de la formation et de l'hégémonie de la Monarchie espagnole aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles ne peut pas se faire sans l'étude des phénomènes sociaux et culturels sur lesquels elle s'est établie. L'expansion du pouvoir espagnol et portugais a déclenché des processus politiques et sociaux qui ont eu comme protagonistes les populations locales d'Europe, d'Afrique, d'Asie et des Amériques. Bien qu'elles aient été incorporées, de gré ou de force, ou qu'elles aient été voisines du pouvoir ibérique, leurs tensions locales et leurs choix politiques ont fini par devenir décisifs dans la configuration du pouvoir espagnol et son évolution. La politique locale devient ainsi un objet d'analyse du global. L'histoire de la Monarchie incorpore les processus violents de sa formation, son polycentrisme, ses rapports avec le reste du monde et, surtout, met au premier plan les acteurs ordinaires : ceux qui l'ont adoptée et ceux qui l'ont combattue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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