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The invention of the colonial Americas : data, architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844

Title
  1. The invention of the colonial Americas : data, architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 / Byron Ellsworth Hamann.
Published by
  1. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2022]
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Hamann, Byron Ellsworth, 1972-

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  1. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.
Description
  1. xviii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Alternative title
  1. Data, architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844
Subject
  1. Archivo General de Indias > History
  2. Lonja de mercaderes (Seville, Spain) > History
  3. Archivo General de Indias
  4. Lonja de mercaderes (Seville, Spain)
  5. 1700-1899
  6. Archives > Spain > Administration > History > 18th century
  7. Archives > Spain > Administration > History > 19th century
  8. Archive buildings > Spain > History
  9. Archival resources
  10. Archive buildings
  11. Archives > Administration
  12. Spanish colonies
  13. Archives
  14. Spain > Colonies > Archival resources. > America
  15. America
  16. Spain
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction: Archives, architecture, and the data of the new world -- The Archive of the Indies in 1818 -- The source archives -- Archive as apparatus -- Data retrieval -- The monsters of reason -- Epilogue: Archival memory -- Appendix A. The finances of the Archive of the Indies: account books and receipts, 1785-1832 -- Appendix B. From archivists to soldiers: the employees of the Archive of the Indies, 1785-1844 -- Appendix C. Parasols, shields, butterfly: the document case metopes of the Archive of the Indies, 1786-88.
Call number
  1. JFF 23-344
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Hamann, Byron Ellsworth, 1972- author.
Title
  1. The invention of the colonial Americas : data, architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 / Byron Ellsworth Hamann.
Publisher
  1. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2022]
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1700-1899
Added author
  1. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Hamann, Byron Ellsworth, 1972- Invention of the colonial Americas. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2022] 9781606067758 (DLC) 2021053741
LCCN
  1. 2021053740
ISBN
  1. 9781606067734 (hardback)
  2. 1606067737
  3. 9781606067758 (pdf)
Research call number
  1. JFF 23-344
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