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

Acknowledgement 9

Times of emergency: Managing communication and politics in the aftermath of a disaster 11

Early modern information: Collecting and knowing in Spain and its Empire 39

Calamities, communication and public space between manuscript and print (Spain and Portugal, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries): From prayers to news 59

Decide, apply and communicate: The colonial administration in Mexico faced with extreme weather episodes 79

A linguistic perspective on the reporting of seventeenth- century natural disasters 113

The rhetoric of disaster between the pre- periodical and the periodical press: The Guadalmedina flood (1661) and the case of the Gazeta Nueva 139

Communicative strategies in relazioni on the 1669 eruption of Mount Etna 171

Countering the spread of contagion. Plague and the media: A close relationship, the case of Conversano (1690? 1692) 197

A comparative analysis of earthquakes as reported in the official Spanish press (1770? 9): A commercial strategy? 223

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) 255

The 1645 Manila earthquake: The distance- time problem during emergencies 281

Standing on shaky ground: The politics of disasters in early modern Peru 309

Mechanisms and strategies for communication in time of war during the eighteenth century 341

Divine intervention? The politics of interpreting disasters 365

Disaster and personal perception: The Calabria and Messina earthquakes (1783) according to the account by the Spanish clergyman Antonio Despuig y Dameto 391

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 433

Index 461