Global

In my essay, “Leche and lagar­tijas: injecting the local into eighteenth-century Spanish American medical dis­course,” I explorehow European and indigenous medical cul­tures that came into contact in Spain’s sixteenth- and seventeenth-century global empire con­tinued their inter­ac­tions well into the late colonial period through an ongoing nego­ti­ation of the local and the global.

As a com­ple­mentary approach to the con­cepts of Com­posite monar­chies and Poly­centric Empires, I would like to posit the heuristic rel­e­vance of a Rhi­zomatic con­ception of early modern empires.