IberLAND’s PI Manuel Bastias Saavedra participated in the International Symposium on Law in Early Modern European Colonies, which took place at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Vila I Tatti) on April 29-30 in Florence. The full programme is available here.
Together with IberLAND’s associate researcher Alessandro Buono (University of Pisa), he presented a manuscript on ‘Regimes of Land’. In their chapter, they argue that the organization of land in early modern European colonies were complex, with the coexistence of European settlements modelled in the form of traditional agrarian societies across colonial contexts; local (native) organization and regulation for the extraction of tribute; and the diffusion of plantations geared towards global commodity markets.
The symposium was organized to discuss the chapters for a forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Law in Early Modern European Colonies edited by Tamar Herzog, Heikki Pihlajamäki, and Airton Ribeiro.
