Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology)

__​​Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism__ illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a range of specific case studies, this book offers a global comparative perspective on colonial processes and colonial situations, and the ways in which they were experienced by the different peoples. But we also focus on marginal “unsuccessful” colonial episodes. Thus, some of the papers deal with very brief colonial events, even “marginal” in some cases, considered “failures” by the Spanish crown or even undertook without their consent. These short events are usually overlooked by traditional historiography, which is why archaeological research is particularly important in these cases, since archaeological remains may be the only type of evidence that stands as proof of these colonial events. At the same time, it critically examines the construction of categories and discourses of colonialism, and questions the ideological underpinnings of the source material required to address such a vast issue. Accordingly, the book strikes a balance between theoretical, methodological and empirical issues, integrated to a lesser or greater extent in most of the chapters.​ Front Matter....Pages i-xii Towards a Comparative Approach to Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Displacing Dominant Meanings in the Archaeology of Urban Policies and Emergence of Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia)....Pages 11-38 The Material Worlds of Colonizers in New Spain....Pages 39-59 Historical Archaeology and the Politics of Empowerment in Venezuela....Pages 61-91 Thoughts on Early Spanish Colonialism Through Two American Case Studies: Basque Fisheries (Canada) and Sancti Spiritus Settlement (Argentina)....Pages 93-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 The Archaeology of the Early Castilian Colonialism in Atlantic Africa. The Canary Islands and Western Barbary (1478–1526)....Pages 119-151 The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1557–1632) and the Origins of Gondärine Architecture (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries)....Pages 153-173 Colonial Encounters in Spanish Equatorial Africa (Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries)....Pages 175-202 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Beginning Historical Archaeology in Vanuatu: Recent Projects on the Archaeology of Spanish, French, and Anglophone Colonialism....Pages 205-227 Spanish Colonial History and Archaeology in the Mariana Islands: Echoes from the Western Pacific....Pages 229-252 The Failed Sixteenth Century Spanish Colonizing Expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Southwest Pacific: The Archaeologies of Settlement Process and Indigenous Agency....Pages 253-279 Ilha Formosa, Seventeenth Century: Archaeology in Small Islands, History of Global Processes....Pages 281-302 Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a range of specific case studies, this book offers a global comparative perspective on colonial processes and colonial situations, and the ways in which they were experienced by the different peoples. The volume stresses the importance of peripheral ĺlunsuccessfulĺl colonial episodes. Thus, some of the papers deal with very brief colonial events, even ĺlmarginalĺl in some cases, considered ĺlfailuresĺl by the Spanish crown or even undertook without their consent. These short events are usually overlooked by traditional historiography, which is why archaeological research is particularly important in these cases, since archaeological remains may be the main type of evidence that stands as proof of these colonial events. At the same time, the book critically examines the construction of categories and discourses of colonialism, and questions the ideological underpinnings of the source material required to address such a vast issue. Accordingly, the book strikes a balance between theoretical, methodological and empirical issues, integrated to a lesser or greater extent in most of the chapters