LEADER 03940nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910777774303321 005 20230607221922.0 010 $a1-281-72260-X 010 $a9786611722609 010 $a0-300-13389-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300133899 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472075 035 $a(EBL)3419840 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000125174 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129789 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125174 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10023822 035 $a(PQKB)11506916 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158007 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419840 035 $a(DE-B1597)485276 035 $a(OCoLC)1024054411 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300133899 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419840 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167888 035 $a(OCoLC)923587739 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472075 100 $a20010919d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aColumbus's outpost among the Tai?nos$b[electronic resource] $eSpain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498 /$fKathleen Deagan and Jose? Mari?a Cruxent 210 $aNew Haven, Conn. $cYale University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-09040-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-282) and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Columbus and La Isabela i -- 2 The Historical Setting 7 -- 3 Reluctant Hosts: -- The Tainos of Hispaniola 23 -- 4 "Hell in Hispaniola": -- La Isabela, I493-1498 47 -- 5 The Hand of Vandals and the -- Tooth of Time: La Isabela, -- I500-1987 7I -- 6 The Medieval Enclave: -- Landscape, Town, and Buildings 95 -- 7 A Spartan Domesticity: -- Household Life in La Isabela's -- Bohios 13I -- 8 God and Glory i63 -- 9 Commerce and Craft I79 -- I0 Aftermath 2zo -- Ii Destinies Converged 213 -- Appendix 229 -- Note on Historical Sources 233 -- Notes 237 -- References 259 -- Acknowledgments 283 -- Index 287. 330 $aIn 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was in ruins. It remains important, however, as the first site of European settlement in America and the first place of sustained interaction between Europeans and the indigenous Taínos.Kathleen Deagan and José María Cruxent now tell the story of this historic enterprise. Drawing on their ten-year archaeological investigation of the site of La Isabela, along with research into Columbus-era documents, they contrast Spanish expectations of America with the actual events and living conditions at America's first European town. Deagan and Cruxent argue that La Isabela failed not because Columbus was a poor planner but because his vision of America was grounded in European experience and could not be sustained in the face of the realities of American life. Explaining that the original Spanish economic and social frameworks for colonization had to be altered in America in response to the American landscape and the non-elite Spanish and Taíno people who occupied it, they shed light on larger questions of American colonialism and the development of Euro-American cultural identity. 606 $aIndians$xFirst contact with other peoples 607 $aLa Isabela (Dominican Republic)$xColonization 615 0$aIndians$xFirst contact with other peoples. 676 $a972.93/58 700 $aDeagan$b Kathleen A$01547167 701 $aCruxent$b Jose? Mari?a$01547168 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777774303321 996 $aColumbus's outpost among the Tai?nos$93803311 997 $aUNINA