Domestic Architecture and Power - The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador (CONTRIBUTIONS TO GLOBAL HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY)
Contributors: Prudence M. Rice (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780306461767
Subjects: South American archaeology; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Historical Archaeology; South America - History; History; History - General History; Sociology; Archaeology; History & Theory - General; Latin America - South America; History / South America; Political Science-History & Theory - General; Social Science / Archaeology; Social Science-Archaeology; Penology; Architecture, Domestic; Cuenca; Cuenca (Ecuador); Ecuador; Excavations (Archaeology); Material culture
First sentence: In Cuenca, as in other colonial centers around the world, colonialism was a history of attempts to assert Western ideals of rationality and order.