Bárbaros : Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment

Bárbaros : Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment /

"Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways and often possessing firearms, indepe...

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Main Author: Weber, David J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
Series:The Lamar Series in Western History
Subjects:
Indians > Colonization.
Indians > Missions.
Indians > Government relations.
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration.
New Spain > Colonization.
America > Discovery and exploration.
America > History > To 1810.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Savants, savages, and new sensibilities
  • Savages and Spaniards: natives transformed
  • The science of creating men
  • A good war or a bad peace?
  • Trading, gifting, and treating
  • Crossing borders
  • Epilogue: Insurgents and savages, from inclusion to exclusion.

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