A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6912-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Part
I. Modern-World Historical Archaeology and Early
Spanish Colonial Urbanism
1. Ciudad Vieja in the Context of
Modern-World Historical
Archaeology 3
2. Ciudad Vieja and Early Spanish Colonial
Urbanism 32
Part
II. The Archaeology of Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador
3. Environmental Structures, Resources,
and Economy of the Villa of San
Salvador 61
4. The Ciudad Vieja Archaeological
Project: Mapping, Site Survey, and
Geophysical Remote Sensing 74
5. The Urban Landscape of Ciudad Vieja:
Excavations and
Architecture 84
Part
III. A Structural History of Early Spanish
Colonial
Urbanism
6. The Longue Duree of Historical
Urbanism in Spain 133
7. Structural History of Early Colonial
Urbanism in Central America 149
8. Conclusions: The Urban Colonization
of Spanish America 208
Notes 231
References Cited 245
Index 323
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.12.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 29 b&w illustrations, 7 maps, 2 tables |
| Verlagsort | Florida |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 849 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8130-6912-2 / 0813069122 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8130-6912-8 / 9780813069128 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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