The History of a Periphery(English, Hardcover, Wiersema Juliet B.)

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The History of a Periphery(English, Hardcover, Wiersema Juliet B.) is written by Wiersema Juliet B. and published by University of Texas Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1477327746 (ISBN 10) and 9781477327746 (ISBN 13).

2025 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, College Art Association An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada. During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater ChocO, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granada's economy yet this Pacific frontier in today's Colombia was considered the "periphery of the periphery." Infamous for its fierce, unconquered Indigenous inhabitants and its brutal tropical climate, it was rarely visited by Spanish administrators, engineers, or topographers and seldom appeared in detail on printed maps of the period. In this lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume, Juliet Wiersema uncovers little-known manuscript cartography and makes visible an unexamined corner of the Spanish empire. In concert with thousands of archival documents from Colombia, Spain, and the United States, she reveals how a "periphery" was imagined and projected, largely for political or economic reasons. Along the way, she unearths untold narratives about ephemeral settlements, African adaptation and autonomy, Indigenous strategies of resistance, and tenuous colonialisms on the margins of a beleaguered viceroyalty.