THE Book uNDER REViEW iS DEDiCATED to the eminent Hispanist Richard L. Kagan, arthur o. Lovejoy Professor emeritus of History at Johns Hopkins University. in spite of its encomiastic origins, the book manages to transcend many of the pitfalls of the Festschrift genre. Richard Kagan’s formidable intellectual range, achievements, and influence are well represented by the contributions, many of which were written by students and collaborators of the renowned scholar of early modern spanish history. Both as a whole and in its parts, the collection is important for any student of the historiography of spain, not the least as a historical artifact itself, that is, a record of transition and tensions in the field of spanish history itself, and perhaps the seedbed for its future directions. In an opening “Appreciation,” Geoffrey Parker recounts Kagan’s career, from his undergraduate studies at columbia and doctoral research at cambridge University under John elliott, to his evolution into the premiere Hispanist of north america. Parker’s chatty preface is followed by a more formal introduction, “mapping the early modern Hispanic World.” in this careful and cogent essay, the editors survey recent developments in the rapidly changing field of early modern spanish history, framing the volume’s essays in light of Kagan’s own work in contesting the Black Legends of spanish exceptionalism and decline. The essays that compose part 1, “City and Society,” foreground the importance of urban space in the articulation of spanish political and cultural identities. in the process, they expand upon and update the analysis of Kagan and Fernando Marías in their Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493–1793 (Yale UP, 2000). In “Towns and the Forging of the Spanish Caribbean,” Ida Altman argues that the municipality—as a social, political, and legal institution—was key to the formation of the Spanish empire. She does so by Kimberly lynn and erin Kathleen Rowe, editors. The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches.

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早期现代西班牙裔世界：跨国和跨学科方法编辑。作者：金伯利·林恩和艾琳·凯瑟琳·罗

正在审阅的这本书献给著名的西班牙裔学者理查德·L·卡根 (arthur o. 约翰霍普金斯大学历史学名誉教授洛夫乔伊。尽管它的起源充满了赞美，这本书还是设法克服了节日文字体的许多陷阱。理查德·卡根 (Richard Kagan) 令人敬畏的知识范围、成就和影响力在这些贡献中得到了很好的体现，其中许多是由这位著名的西班牙早期现代史学者的学生和合作者撰写的。无论是整体还是部分，该系列对于西班牙史学的任何学生都很重要，尤其是作为历史文物本身，即西班牙历史本身领域的过渡和紧张局势的记录，也许其未来发展方向的苗床。在开场白中，” Geoffrey Parker 讲述了 Kagan 的职业生涯，从他在哥伦比亚大学的本科学习和在约翰·艾略特的指导下在剑桥大学的博士研究，到他成为北美首屈一指的西班牙裔人士。帕克健谈的序言之后是更正式的介绍，“描绘早期的现代西班牙裔世界”。在这篇谨慎而有说服力的文章中，编辑们调查了早期现代西班牙历史迅速变化的领域的最新发展，根据卡根自己在对抗西班牙例外主义和衰落的黑人传奇方面的工作来构建该卷的文章。构成第 1 部分“城市与社会”的文章突出了城市空间在表达西班牙政治和文化身份中的重要性。进行中，他们扩展并更新了 Kagan 和 Fernando Marías 在他们的《西班牙裔世界的城市形象，1493-1793》（耶鲁大学，2000 年）中的分析。在“城镇和西班牙加勒比地区的锻造”中，艾达·奥特曼认为市政当局——作为一个社会、政治和法律机构——是西班牙帝国形成的关键。她是由 Kimberly lynn 和 erin Kathleen Rowe 编辑的。早期现代西班牙裔世界：跨国和跨学科方法。