Studies in the Colonial History of Spanish America
Studies in the Colonial History of Spanish America

Author: Mario Góngora

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-12-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521102087

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The seven essays that are contained in Mario Góngora's Studies in the Colonial History of Spanish America demonstrate his exceptional range as a historian, as they run from the eve of discovery and conquest of the Indies to the end of the Spanish Empire, and connect matters as seemingly distant as the place of the New World in Spanish utopian thought and the humble workings of the native labour system. Professor Góngora draws on his own previous work on the theory and technique of conquest, showing its European precedents and context, and displaying the mastery of local detail that readers of his previous books will expect. In these essays he also reflects on the advances in scholarship that have been made in the last decades, and relates one monograph to another, one local study to a larger issue, practical developments and ideological currents, in a manner that will appeal not only to all students of the Spanish Empire and of Spain, but to historians of many different interests.

Relatos y relaciones de Hispanoamérica colonial
Relatos y relaciones de Hispanoamérica colonial

Author: Otto Olivera

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2009-07-21

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0292778899

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This anthology of foundational sixteenth-century Spanish-language texts presents the European side of the discovery and colonization of the New World. Otto Olivera has chosen representative selections from the works of eighteen authors, including Garcilaso de la Vega, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Hernán Cortés, and Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Their writings present an impressive panorama of the first years of a real New World that could compete with any portrayed in European novels of chivalry or travel. To put these texts in historical context, Olivera has written an introduction that links the literature of colonization in its first century to the classical and medieval myths that helped shape Spaniards' thinking about the New World. He also provides a brief history of the discovery and conquest and a discussion of the social organization of the Spanish colonies.

The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience

Author: Jacob J. Sauer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-13

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 3319092014

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This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile. This examination is done through the lens of Resilience Theory, which has the potential to offer an interpretive framework for analyzing Araucanian culture through time and space. Resilience Theory describes “the capacity of a system to absorb disturbances and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain the same function.” The Araucanians incorporated certain Spanish material culture into their own, rejected others, and strategically restructured aspects of their political, economic, social, and ideological institutions in order to remain independent for over 350 years.

El siglo XVIII americano: estudios de historia colonial
El siglo XVIII americano: estudios de historia colonial

Author: Juan David Montoya Guzmán

Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 9587618475

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El presente volumen recoge diversas investigaciones recientes sobre aspectos relevantes y novedosos para la compresión y estudio del siglo XVIII en diferentes lugares del continente americano: Nueva Inglaterra, la cuenca del mar Caribe, Nueva España, el Nuevo Reino de Granada, Quito y Brasil. El grupo de historiadores que ha hecho posible este libro se ha encargado de llamar la atención sobre la significativa importancia del siglo XVIII como una época de consolidación, pero a su vez, de innumerables fracasos, que impulsaron la decadencia del dominio europeo en una vastísima porción del Nuevo Mundo y que dio paso a la cristalización de procesos revolucionarios e independentistas. Este volumen se ha articulado entre exploraciones geográficas, regímenes de esclavitud, revoluciones, contrabandos, espionajes y fronteras, todos tópicos enmarcados en lo que puede considerarse como un siglo XVIII de larga duración. Las contribuciones que aquí presentamos deben ser útiles, no solo a los investigadores preocupados por temáticas similares, sino también para aquellos lectores interesados en conocer aspectos de la historia colonial americana que, sin duda, se suelen relativizar ?y en ocasiones ignorar- en las historias "monolíticas; "totales " y "generales " del continente.

Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America
Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America

Author: Geoffrey Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0521766869

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Representing pioneering research, essays in this collection investigate musical developments in the urban context of colonial Latin America.

Between Encyclopedia and Chorography
Between Encyclopedia and Chorography

Author: Anna Boroffka

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-10-03

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 3110748010

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During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.