Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia
Subtitle: Phoenician, Greek, and indigenous relations
By: edited by Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz.
Contributors: Dietler, Michael.; López Ruiz, Carolina.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780226148472
Subjects: Phoenicians -- Iberian Peninsula; Greeks -- Iberian Peninsula; Iberian Peninsula -- Antiquities; Tartessos (Kingdom) -- History
Description: Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ex occidente lux: a preface / Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz; title: Theoretical issues and frameworks; title: Colonial encounters in Iberia and the western Mediterranean: an exploratory framework / Michael Dietler; title: Colonial relations and social change in Iberia (seventh to third centuries bc) / Joan Sanmartí; title: New perspectives on Phoenician and Greek ventures on the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts; title: Colonial contacts and protohistoric indigenous urbanism on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian peninsula / Maria Carme Belarte; title: Phoenician colonization on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula / Ana Marguerida Arruda; title: Greeks and the Iberian peninsula: forms of exchange and settlements / Pierre Rouillard; title: Plant resources, agrarian practices, and the colonial political economy; title: Botanical and archaeological dimensions of the colonial encounter / Ramon Buxó; title: Lumbermen and shipwrights: Phoenicians on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain / Brigitte Treumann; title: The question of Tartessos: a debate reframed; title: Phoenicians in Tartessos / María Belén Deamos; title: Precolonization and colonization in the interior of Tartessos / Sebastián Celestino Pérez; title: Interrogating colonial texts and imagined landscapes; title: Tarshish and Tartessos revisited: textual problems and historical implications / Carolina López-Ruiz; title: Iberia in the Greek geographical imagination / Javier Gómez Espelosín; title: Colonial encounters in ancient Iberia: a coda.