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
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Universidad de La Laguna
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- Rosa, Maria de Lurdes (coord.)
- Nóvoa, Rita Sampaio da (coord.)
- Gago, Alice Borges (coord.)
- Câmara, Maria João da (coord.)
Verlag: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
ISBN: 9789892617947
Datum der Publikation: 2019
Seiten: 237-251
Art: Buch-Kapitel
Zusammenfassung
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.