Dietler M., López-Ruiz C. (eds.) Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations

The University of Chicago Press, 2009. — 323 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-226-14847-2.During the first millennium BCE, complex encounters of Phoenician and Greek colonists with natives of the Iberian Peninsula transformed the region and influenced the entire history of the Mediterranean.
One of the first books on these encounters to appear in English, this volume brings together a multinational group of contributors to explore ancient Iberia’s colonies and indigenous societies, as well as the comparative study of colonialism. These scholars—from a range of disciplines including classics, history, anthropology, and archaeology—address such topics as trade and consumption, changing urban landscapes, cultural transformations, and the ways in which these issues played out in the Greek and Phoenician imaginations. Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history.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 Margarida 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 (Michael Dietler and Carolina López-Ruiz).