Columbus’s Outpost among the Taínos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498

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In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in The united states. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was once in ruins. It remains essential, on the other hand, as the first website online of European settlement in The united states and the first place of sustained interaction between Europeans and the indigenous Tainos.
Kathleen Deagan and Jose Maria Cruxent now tell the story of this historic enterprise. Drawing on their ten-year archaeological investigation of the website online of La Isabela, together with research into Columbus-era documents, they contrast Spanish expectations of The united states with the real events and living conditions at The united states’s first European town. Deagan and Cruxent argue that La Isabela failed not because Columbus was once a poor planner but because his vision of The united states was once 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 needed to be altered in The united states based on the American landscape and the nonelite Spanish and Taino people who occupied it, they make clear larger questions of American colonialism and the development of Euro-American cultural identity.

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