People of the Iberian Borderlands: Community and Conflict between Spain and Portugal, 1640-1715

This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish–Portuguese borderlands during the early modern period.

It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities by external narratives. Thus, if tradition...