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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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Weber, David J. (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: New Haven : Yale University Press [2005]
Serija:The Lamar Series in Western History
Online pristup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1npds7
Sadržaj:
  • 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.