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