Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 466 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300105010
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0300127677
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1281729604
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9780300105018
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9780300127676
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9781281729606
Serie:
The Lamar Series in Western History
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-440) and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0300105010
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ISBN 9780300105018
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ISBN 0300119917
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ISBN 9780300119916
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Weber, David J Bárbaros New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005
Sprache:
Englisch
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