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American history vs European history
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architectural history of archives
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archival practices 1700s Spain
archive assemblages
archive building layouts
archive of colonial power
archives and historical imagination
archives and scholarly innovation
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Byron Ellsworth Hamann
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colonial Americas documentation
colonialism
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eighteenth-century historical revisionism
eighteenth-century Seville history
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Invention of the Colonial Americas
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Seville archive architecture
Seville Archive of the Indies
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Spanish colonial history
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Product details
- ISBN 9781606067734
- Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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. It centers on an archive created in Seville for storing Spain's pre-1760 documents about the New World. 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. 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, Byron Ellsworth Hamann explores how building layouts, systems of storage, and the arrangement of documents were designed to foster the creation of new knowledge. He draws on a rich collection of eighteenth-century architectural plans, descriptions, models, document catalogs, and surviving buildings to present a literal, materially precise account of archives as assemblages of spaces, humans, and data-assemblages that were understood circa 1800 as capable of actively generating scholarly innovation.
Byron Ellsworth Hamann's research is focused on the art and writing of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, as well as on the connections linking the Americas and Europe in the early modern Mediterratlantic world.
