Communication and Politics in the Hispanic Monarchy : Managing Times of Emergency

• Autore: Schwarze Sabine
• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt a.M. : , : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Information networks; Disasters
• Altri autori: CecereDomenico TuccilloAlessandro
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Series Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Times of emergency: Managing communication and politics in the aftermath of a disaster (Domenico Cecere, Alessandro Tuccillo) -- Section I: Controlling the flow of news -- Early modern information: Collecting and knowing in Spain and its Empire (Tamar Herzog) -- Calamities, communication and public space between manuscript and print (Spain and Portugal, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries): From prayers to news (Fernando Bouza) -- Decide, apply and communicate: The colonial administration in Mexico faced with extreme weather episodes (Virginia García-Acosta) -- Section II: From relaciones to periodicals -- A linguistic perspective on the reporting of seventeenth-century natural disasters (Annachiara Monaco) -- The rhetoric of disaster between the pre-periodical and the periodical press: The Guadalmedina flood (1661) and the case of the Gazeta Nueva (Vincenzo Leonardi) -- Communicative strategies in relazioni on the 1669 eruption of Mount Etna (Valentina Sferragatta) -- Countering the spread of contagion. Plague and the media: A close relationship, the case of Conversano (1690-1692) (Enrico De Prisco) -- A comparative analysis of earthquakes as reported in the official Spanish press (1770-9): A commercial strategy? (José Daniel Lozano Díaz, Antonio Manuel Berná Ortigosa) -- Section III: The logistics of communication -- Crisis as a measure of communicative capacity in the Spanish Empire: Letters, messengers and news informing Spain of the Sangley uprising in Manila (1603-1608) (Guillaume Gaudin) -- The 1645 Manila earthquake: The distance-time problem during emergencies (Paulina Machuca) -- Standing on shaky ground: The politics of disasters in early modern Peru (Domenico Cecere). ; Mechanisms and strategies for communication in time of war during the eighteenth century (Rocío Moreno-Cabanillas) -- Section IV: Putting a spin on disasters -- Divine intervention? The politics of interpreting disasters (Alessandro Tuccillo) -- Disaster and personal perception: The Calabria and Messina earthquakes (1783) according to the account by the Spanish clergyman Antonio Despuig y Dameto (Armando Alberola Romá) -- Between the brilliant light and the shadow of the insects: The instruction on the plague of locusts ordered by the Government of Guatemala in 1804 (Luis Alberto Arrioja Díaz Viruell) -- Index -- Series Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book examines how emergencies were hadled in the Hispanic Monarchy in the early modern Age, by focusing on communication. It explores narrative strategies used to report disasters, the impact of extreme events on information networks, the effect of conflicting interpretations of such events, the connections to political and social dynamics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Communication and Politics in the Hispanic Monarchy
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910776162503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Europa Periodica Series