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Author | : David J. Weber |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300127677 |
Two centuries after CortÉs 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 J. Weber explains how late eighteenthcentury Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called bÁrbaros, 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 recognize 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, authorizing 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.
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Total Pages | : 1090 |
Release | : 1945-12 |
Genre | : Administrative law |
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Author | : Chile. Ministerio de Marina |
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Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Chile |
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Author | : Jeffrey L. Gould |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822320982 |
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the 19th century, TO DIE IN THIS WAY reveals the continued existence of a "forgotten" indigenous culture. By recovering a significant part of Nicaraguan history that has been excised from national memory, Jeffrey Gould critiques the enterprise of third world nation-building and marks an important step in the study of Latin American culture and history. 11 photos.
Author | : Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2022-03-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520383362 |
An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan. With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto subjects the surviving sources to the most meticulous scrutiny ever, providing a timely and engrossing biography of the real Ferdinand Magellan. The truth that Fernández-Armesto uncovers about Magellan’s life, his character, and the events of his ill-fated voyage offers up a stranger, darker, and even more compelling narrative than the fictional version that has been celebrated for half a millennium. Magellan did not attempt––much less accomplish––a journey around the globe. In his lifetime he was abhorred as a traitor, reviled as a tyrant, self-condemned to destruction, and dismissed as a failure. Straits untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero and discloses the reality of the man, probing the passions and tensions that drove him to adventure and drew him to disaster. We see the mutations of his character: pride that became arrogance, daring that became recklessness, determination that became ruthlessness, romanticism that became irresponsibility, and superficial piety that became, in adversity, irrational exaltation. As the real Magellan emerges, so do his real ambitions, focused less on circumnavigating the world or cornering the global spice market than on exploiting Filipino gold. Straits is a study in failure and the paradox of Magellan’s career, showing that renown is not always a reflection of merit but often a gift and accident of circumstance.
Author | : Herbert Ingram Priestley |
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Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Florida |
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Author | : Peter Howson |
Publisher | : The Business Year |
Total Pages | : 220 |
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Genre | : Business & Economics |
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The Business Year: Mexico 2020 is a comprehensive examination of Latin America's second largest economy during an unprecedented period of uncertainty and change. To understand how this economy performed during this period and how it might recover, we conducted a year-long investigation that includes interviews with the top executives and officials from the public and private sectors.
Author | : Laura Tedesco |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780714649788 |
This book offers a new approach to the democratisation process and economic adjustment in Argentina during the 1980s. The objective of the book is to provid the key to understanding the changes undergone by the state and economy in the 1990s.
Author | : George Bryan Souza |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 2015-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004301542 |
In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.
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Publisher | : Editorial Ink |
Total Pages | : 152 |
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