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The Invention of the Colonial Americas - Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 (Hardcover)
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The Invention of the Colonial Americas - Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 (Hardcover)
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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.
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