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German Conquistadors in Venezuela
2022
Overview
This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German
colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism
and the subsequent memorialization of the period through to the
twentieth century.
Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the strangest and
often-ignored episodes in the conquest and colonization of the
Americas--the governance of the Province of Venezuela by the
Welsers, a German banking family from Augsburg, in the sixteenth
century. Using a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the
book chronicles the Welsers' business expansion beyond banking to
colonization and the slave trade in the Spanish Indies and the
eventual failure of the colony. Montenegro follows the money that
financed the Habsburg empire, tackling a multifaceted, multilingual
corpus of primary documents. She examines numerous legal documents,
from contracts granting colonization and slave trade rights
( capitulaciones , asientos ) to complex financial
transactions (interests, exchange rates). She also analyzes maps,
literary texts, and various chronicles and poems of the period. The
book examines a history of violence perpetrated upon enslaved
Indigenous and African people, but it is also the story of how
different generations across the Atlantic, up to Nazi Germany in
the twentieth century, have remembered and recalled this Welser
period of governance in Venezuela to serve other social and
political purposes. Montenegro positions her research in relation
to current critical discussion on inequality, slavery, White
supremacy, and neoconservative nationalist movements in
contemporary Latin America and Germany.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
ISBN
0268203229, 9780268203221, 9780268203207, 0268203202, 9780268203214, 0268203237, 9780268203238, 0268203210
