Colonial Spanish America

Colonial Spanish America
Author: Leslie Bethell
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1987-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521349246

The complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale, authoritative survey of Latin America's unique historical experience from the first contacts between the native American Indians and Europeans to the present day. Colonial Spanish America is a selection of chapters from volumes I and II brought together to provide a continuous history of the Spanish Empire in America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The first three chapters deal with conquest and settlement and relations between Spain and its American Empire; the final six with urban development, mining, rural economy and society, including the formation of the hacienda, the internal economy, and the impact of Spanish rule on Indian societies. Bibliographical essays are included for all chapters. The book will be a valuable text for both students and teachers of Latin American history.

New World Orders

New World Orders
Author: John Smolenski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812290003

As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time, historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework flexible enough to incorporate the sweeping narratives of imperial history and the hidden narratives of social history into a broader, synthetic whole. No such paradigm that captures the two perspectives has yet emerged. New World Orders addresses these broad conceptual issues by reexamining the relationships among violence, sanction, and authority in the early modern Americas. More specifically, the essays in this volume explore the wide variety of legal and extralegal means—from state-sponsored executions to unsanctioned crowd actions—by which social order was maintained, with a particular emphasis on how extralegal sanctions were defined and used; how such sanctions related to legal forms of maintaining order; and how these patterns of sanction, embedded within other forms of colonialism and culture, created cultural, legal, social, or imperial spaces in the early Americas. With essays written by senior and junior scholars on the British, Spanish, Dutch, and French colonies, New World Orders presents one of the most comprehensive looks at the sweep of colonization in the Atlantic world. By juxtaposing case studies from Brazil, Venezuela, New York, California, Saint Domingue, and Louisiana with treatments of broader trends in Anglo-America or Spanish America more generally, the volume demonstrates the need to examine the questions of violence, sanction, and authority in hemispheric perspective.

El modelo urbano de la ciudad colonial y su implantación en Hispanoamérica

El modelo urbano de la ciudad colonial y su implantación en Hispanoamérica
Author: Allan R Brewer Carias
Publisher: Universidad Externado
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9587103327

En toda la historia de la humanidad ningún país del mundo ha fundado tantos pueblos, villas y ciudades en un territorio tan grande, en un período de tiempo tan corto, y en una forma tan regular y ordenada como lo hizo España en América durante los siglos XVI y XVII.La ciudad ordenada colonial hispanoamericana fue la gran creación y legado cultural urbano español en el Nuevo Continente, materializada en un modelo urbano caracterizado por su forma general reticular, desarrollado siempre partiendo del trazado de una plaza mayor o central dispuesta a cordel y regla, de la cual paulatinamente fueron saliendo calles trazadas en línea recta, formando una trama urbana en manzanas o cuadras generalmente iguales, como un damero, tal y como todavía hoy se aprecia en todos los centros o cascos históricos de los pueblos y ciudades latinoamericanas.Estas conferencias tienen por objeto, precisamente, tratar de explicar el origen de esa forma urbana ortogonal y de cómo la misma se implantó con una regularidad, formalidad y continuidad pasmosas en el vasto continente americano, desde la Nueva España (México) y la Florida en el Norte, hasta el extremo Sur en Chile y el Río de la Plata.La ciudad ordenada colonial hispanoamericana fue la gran creación y legado cultural urbano español en el Nuevo Continente, materializada en un modelo urbano caracterizado por su forma general reticular, desarrollado siempre partiendo del trazado de una plaza mayor o central dispuesta a cordel y regla, de la cual paulatinamente fueron saliendo calles trazadas en línea recta, formando una trama urbana en manzanas o cuadras generalmente iguales, como un damero, tal y como todavía hoy se aprecia en todos los centros o cascos históricos de los pueblos y ciudades latinoamericanas.Estas conferencias tienen por objeto, precisamente, tratar de explicar el origen de esa forma urbana ortogonal y de cómo la misma se implantó con una regularidad, formalidad y continuidad pasmosas en el vasto continente americano, desde la Nueva España (México) y la Florida en el Norte, hasta el extremo Sur en Chile y el Río de la Plata.Estas conferencias tienen por objeto, precisamente, tratar de explicar el origen de esa forma urbana ortogonal y de cómo la misma se implantó con una regularidad, formalidad y continuidad pasmosas en el vasto continente americano, desde la Nueva España (México) y la Florida en el Norte, hasta el extremo Sur en Chile y el Río de la Plata.

Defining Nations

Defining Nations
Author: Tamar Herzog
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300129831

In this book Tamar Herzog explores the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. Challenging the assumption that communities were the natural result of common factors such as language or religion, or that they were artificially imagined, Herzog reexamines early modern categories of belonging. She argues that the distinction between those who were Spaniards and those who were foreigners came about as local communities distinguished between immigrants who were judged to be willing to take on the rights and duties of membership in that community and those who were not.

The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History

The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199589534

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world's cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.

La Ciudad hispanoamericana

La Ciudad hispanoamericana
Author: Centro de Estudios Históricos de Obras Públicas y Urbanismo (Spain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

Remote Sensing in Archaeology

Remote Sensing in Archaeology
Author: James R. Wiseman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2007-04-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 038744453X

Archaeology has been transformed by technology that allows one to ‘see’ below the surface of the earth. This work illustrates the uses of advanced technology in archaeological investigation. It deals with hand-held instruments that probe the subsurface of the earth to unveil layering and associated sites; underwater exploration and photography of submerged sites and artifacts; and the utilization of imaging from aircraft and spacecraft to reveal the regional setting of archaeological sites and to assist in cultural resource management.

To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America

To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America
Author: Mónica Díaz
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826357741

The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people. The colonizers’ intent was to homogenize these cultures and make all of them “Indian.” The creation of those new identities is the subject of the essays collected in Díaz’s To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America. Focusing on central Mexico and the Andes (colonial New Spain and Peru), the contributors deepen scholarly knowledge of colonial history and literature, emphasizing the different ways people became and lived their lives as “indios.” While the construction of indigenous identities has been a theme of considerable interest among Latin Americanists since the early 1990s, this book presents new archival research and interpretive thinking, offering new material and a new approach to the subject to both scholars of colonial Peru and central Mexico.