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Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America

William R. Fowler
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Central America
City Planning
Ciudad Vieja
colonial Spanish America
Colonialism
Costa Rica
early colonial period
Economy
El Salvador
Environment
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Eurocentrism
geophysical survey
Guatemala
Guazapa volcano
Hispania Baetica
historical materialism
Honduras
indigenous Mesoamericans
Landscape
Lempa River
magnetic susceptibility
Military encampments
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraiso Basin
racialization
Resources
San Salvador
soils agriculture
space-time interrelationships
Spain
Spaniards
Spanish-Mesoamerican War
Spanish-Pipil War
spatial analysis
structural history
subsurface remote sensing
Urbanism

Product details

  • ISBN 9780813069128
  • Weight: 849g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
In this milestone work, William Fowler uses archaeology, history, and social theory to show that the establishment of cities was essential to Spanish colonialism. Fowler draws upon decades of archaeological research on the landscape, built environment, and architecture of Ciudad Vieja, a sixteenth-century site located in present-day El Salvador and the best-preserved Spanish colonial city in Latin America.

Fowler compares Ciudad Vieja to other urban sites in the region and to the tradition of urbanism in early modern Spain to determine how the Spanish grid-plan layout was modified and implemented in the Americas. Using extensive archival material, Fowler describes how this layout reflected and perpetuated power structures that benefitted the Spanish although the city's Indigenous population was greater in number. Fowler analyzes recorded interactions between colonists, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans to demonstrate the ways the cityscape affected the relationships among individuals and cultural groups.

Offering an unparalleled view into a critical moment in Latin American history, this book offers new ways of looking at urbanism and colonialism as intertwined forces in the emergence of the early modern world.
About William R. Fowler
William R. Fowler, associate professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University, is the author of The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations: The Pipil-Nicarao of Central America and editor of The Formation of Complex Society in Southeastern Mesoamerica.

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