The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844

by Byron Ellsworth Hamann

The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606067737
• ISBN13: 9781606067734
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.2" x 10.2"