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Birkitts Books presents ... Columbian Consequences, Vol. 2: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East ISBN: 0874743907 Author: David Hurst Thomas [Editor] Publisher: Smithsonian Release Date: 1990-07-17 Seller Category: Archaeology Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Very Good Sku: 240905011 Notes: Jacket is rubbed, edges are lightly worn, a 2x1" piece laminate on the back page is torn, binding sound, internally clean. A few page corners are creased. Volume 2 Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East Columbian Consequences, a three-volume series, addresses the social, demographic, ecological, ideological, and human repercussions of Columbus's arrival in 1492. Deliberately timed to precede the Columbian Quincentenary observances of 1992, this series explores the nature of early European?Native American interactions across the Spanish Borderlands, which run from San Francisco, California, to St. Augustine, Florida. Decades of historical research have demonstrated the integrity of the Spanish Borderlands, the northern rim of New Spain, which maintained a unique identity, far from the nuclear centers of Spanish colonial civilization in the West Indies, Central Mexico, Mexico, and Peru. More than one hundred eminent researchers from a broad assortment of intellectual environments have contributed to Columbian Consequences. In Volume 2 they examine European exploration, colonization, and missionization in the eastern borderlands?the contemporary American Southeast and the Caribbean. Some of the authors search through the archaeological evidence for clues to the sociopolitics, economics, and physical environment of the contact period. Others draw upon their training in the diverse fields of American history, art history, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and geography A Franciscan scholar considers the relevance of ongoing archaeological explorations to contemporary religious life, and two Latin American archaeologists discuss contact period studies studies in the Caribbean from their unique perspectives Despite the diversity in approach these authors the coping strategies employed the eastern borderlands. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!