The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 Hamann Byron Ellsworth
The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 Hamann Byron Ellsworth The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of…
Specifikacia The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 Hamann Byron Ellsworth
The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 Hamann Byron Ellsworth
The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s.The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of changing theories and practices of government archives in Enlightenment Spain. To fill this new archive, older archives elsewhere in Spain--spaces in which records about American history were stored together with records about European history--were dismembered. It centers on an archive created in Seville for storing Spain's pre-1760 documents about the New World.
The Archive of the Indies thus constructed a scholarly apparatus that made it easier to imagine the history of the Americas as independent from the history of Europe, and vice versa.In this meticulously researched book,