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SPN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Designing Empire: Plazas, Power, and Urban Planning in Habsburg Spain and its Colonies.

4 credits (Spring)
Spanish Habsburg Monarchs employed the founding cities as a tool of imperial legitimacy in ways other emerging colonial powers did not, creating an “empire of cities” (Kagan). This course will approach the compartive issue of the city in the Habsburg world, focusing in particular in Spain, the Viceroyalty of Peru and New Spain, and the Spanish colonies in Asia. The common denomiator is the political construction and alteration of urban public space-how old communal spaces were remade into Baroque showcases of monarchaial power and how, in overseas territories, urbanism was the cornerstone of monarchial legitimacy.

Prerequisite: SPN 311 SPN 312 , SPN 314 SPN 315 SPN 317  , SPN 295 Reading Post-Conflict Central  America (offered Spring 2013), or SPN 295 Refashioning the Self: Hispanic Women’s Literature in the 20th Century (offered Spring 2014).
Instructor: Pérez