"Not A City But A World": Seville and the Indies (*).(Seville, Spain)

From: The Geographical Review | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Lovell, W. George | Copyright information

DR. LOVELL is a professor of geography at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.

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In the heart of Seville, squarely set between the ramparts of a Moorish citadel and the flying buttresses of a Gothic cathedral, lies the Archivo General de Indias--the Archive of the Indies (Figure 1). Many archives elsewhere in the world house important imperial collections, but none equals the Seville repository in terms of site and relevance. Forget Lon...

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