TY - GEN T1 - Bárbaros : Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment T2 - The Lamar Series in Western History A1 - Weber, David J. LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn159936045 AB - "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, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries. In this panoramic study, David Weber explains how late eighteenth-century Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called barbaros, or 'savages'. Even Spain's most powerful monarchs failed, however, to enforce a consistent, well-reasoned policy toward Indians. At one extreme, powerful independent Indians forced Spaniards to seek peace, acknowledge autonomous tribal governments and recognise the existence of tribal lands, fulfilling the Crown's oft-stated wish to use 'gentle' means in dealing with Indians. At the other extreme the Crown abandoned its principles, authorising bloody wars on Indians when Spanish officers believed they could defeat them. Power, says Weber, more than the power of ideas, determined how Spaniards treated 'savages' in the Age of Enlightenment."-- OP - 466 CN - E59.C58 W43 2005eb SN - 9780300127676 SN - 0300127677 SN - 1281729604 SN - 9781281729606 SN - 9786611729608 SN - 6611729607 SN - 0300105010 SN - 9780300105018 SN - 0300119917 SN - 9780300119916 KW - Indians : Colonization. KW - Indians : Missions. KW - Indians : Government relations. KW - Spain : Colonies : America : Administration. KW - New Spain : Colonization. KW - America : Discovery and exploration. KW - America : History : To 1810. KW - Peuples autochtones : Colonisation. KW - Peuples autochtones : Missions. KW - Peuples autochtones : Relations avec l'État. KW - Espagne : Colonies : Amérique : Administration. KW - Nouvelle-Espagne : Colonisation. KW - Amérique : Découverte et exploration. KW - Amérique : Histoire : Jusqu'à 1810. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Civil Rights. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Human Rights. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Spain & Portugal. KW - Colonization KW - Discoveries in geography KW - Indians : Government relations KW - Indians : Missions KW - Colonies : Administration KW - Spanish colonies KW - America KW - New Spain KW - To 1810 KW - History ER -