Author: Bartolomé de las CasasPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
History of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las CasasPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Natural & Moral History of the Indies: The moral history (books V-VII)
Author: José de AcostaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Natural and Moral History of the Indies
Author: José de Acosta (s.j.)Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822328452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
DIVExploration of th society, surroundings and lives of the Amerindians of the Western Indies and the Americas (what we would call Latin America) as seen through first-hand observations of Jose Acosta and the written accounts of other ethnohistorians, soldie/div
Fatal Revolutions
Author: Christopher P. IanniniPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. Iannini argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas. In fact, eighteenth-century natural history as a literary genre largely took its shape from its practice in the Caribbean, an oft-studied region that was a prime source of wealth for all of Europe and the Americas. The formal evolution of colonial prose narrative, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged necessarily from within the context of Atlantic slavery and the production of tropical commodities. As he reestablishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing the moral implications of colonial slavery.
The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending
Author: James KnightPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813945577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of 1746–47 and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight’s work is not only the most comprehensive account of Jamaica’s ninety years as an English colony ever written; it is also one of the best representations of the provincial mentality as it had emerged in colonial British America between the founding of Virginia and 1750. Expertly edited and introduced by renowned scholar Jack Greene, this volume represents a colonial Caribbean history unique in its contemporary perspective, detail, and scope.
Uneven Ground
Author: David Eugene WilkinsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133959
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian nations have been able to establish policies concerning health care, education, religious freedom, law enforcement, gaming, and taxation. David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima discuss how the political rights and sovereign status of Indian nations have variously been respected, ignored, terminated, and unilaterally modified by federal lawmakers as a result of the ambivalent political and legal status of tribes under western law.
Infidels and Empires in a New World Order
Author: David M. LantiguaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498264
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.
The Fall of Natural Man
Author: Anthony PagdenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521337045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A history of the changing intellectual attitudes in 16th- and 17th-century Spain towards the American Indians and their society.
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies
Author: José de AcostaTrading Roles
Author: Jane E. ManganPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822386666
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated with the silver trade, Trading Roles emphasizes daily life in the city’s streets, markets, and taverns. As Jane E. Mangan shows, food and drink transactions emerged as the most common site of interaction for Potosinos of different ethnic and class backgrounds. Within two decades of Potosí’s founding in the 1540s, the majority of the city’s inhabitants no longer produced food or alcohol for themselves; they purchased these items. Mangan presents a vibrant social history of colonial Potosí through an investigation of everyday commerce during the city’s economic heyday, between the discovery of silver in 1545 and the waning of production in the late seventeenth century. Drawing on wills and dowries, judicial cases, town council records, and royal decrees, Mangan brings alive the bustle of trade in Potosí. She examines quotidian economic transactions in light of social custom, ethnicity, and gender, illuminating negotiations over vendor locations, kinship ties that sustained urban trade through the course of silver booms and busts, and credit practices that developed to mitigate the pressures of the market economy. Mangan argues that trade exchanges functioned as sites to negotiate identities within this colonial multiethnic society. Throughout the study, she demonstrates how women and indigenous peoples played essential roles in Potosí’s economy through the commercial transactions she describes so vividly.