RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart T1 Colonizing land, creating societies, making and remaking archival memories: family archives and social power in the Canary Islands from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries A1 Gutiérrez de Armas, Judit A2 Geografía e Historia A2 Grupo de investigación TierraFamilia y Sociedad en la Edad Moderna IUEM K1 family archive K1 colonization K1 Early Modern Spain K1 Canary Islands AB This paper analyzes the evolution of family archive practices in the CanaryIslands during the Early Modern Age. Since the colonization of the islands to the implemen-tation of liberalism, most of elite families needed the archive for several purposes in eachcontext: to manage the social reproduction of the family, to support the social promotion,to manage the family property or to create a noble family narrative. Through empiricalexamples this paper examines some events that involved new models of archival practicesby the insular elites. PB Universidade de Coimbra SN 978-989-26-1794-7 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35859 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/35859 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 24-may-2024