TY - CHAP AU - Gutiérrez de Armas, Judit KW - family archive; colonization; Early Modern Spain; Canary Islands T1 - Colonizing land, creating societies, making and remaking archival memories: family archives and social power in the Canary Islands from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries LA - eng PY - 2019 SP - 237 EP - 251 T2 - Recovered voices, newfound questions: family archives and historical research SN - 9789892617947 PB - Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra PP - Coimbra AB - This paper analyzes the evolution of family archive practices in the CanaryIslands during the Early Modern Age. Since the colonization of the islands to the implementation of liberalism, most of elite families needed the archive for several purposes in eachcontext: to manage the social reproduction of the family, to support the social promotion,to manage the family property or to create a noble family narrative. Through empiricalexamples this paper examines some events that involved new models of archival practicesby the insular elites. UR - https://portalciencia.ull.es/documentos/6050ad12d700765ec201b107 DP - Dialnet - Portal de la Investigación ER -