Add to ORKGThis study examines how indigenous groups and individuals responded to and identified Europeans in moments of early encounter in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Whilst the narrow issue of whether Mesoamericans viewed the arriving Europeans as ‘White Gods’ has dominated scholarship considering indigenous views of Europeans during first encounter, this study departs from this simplistic ‘god’/‘not god’ binary. Instead, it explores the wide and complex spectrum of indigenous responses to these newcomers – from flight to fight, trade and exchange to provision of aid – and asks how such responses reflected the nature and stability of cross-cultural relations. By exploring Taíno and Nahua worldv...
This thesis takes a comparative approach in examining the reactions of residents of three seventeent...
During the sixteenth century, tens of thousands of people in the region which the Europeans called M...
This dissertation argues that Guaraní socio-cultural practices determined what Spaniards could and c...
Indigenous people are often seen as static recipients of transatlantic encounter, influencing the At...
Early in the morning of 12 October 1492, three Spanish ships settled off the beaches of San Salvador...
Shorter WorksThe Spaniards watched with bated breath. The dust, having been kicked up by hundreds of...
<p>On twelve October, 1492 the networks of the Old and New World ─ the former represented by Admiral...
A study of the representations of the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean in European writing fr...
It is usually believed that Amerindian groups have tended either toward assimilation or toward the f...
This thesis explores the way three indigenous writers and leaders, in Peru, the US, and Canada, used...
The sixteenth-century Spanish conquest in the Americas has significantly altered world history. Unfo...
Using the travel writings of Amerigo Vespucci, the voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral and Jean de Léry’s...
This is a study of the early colonial period of the Río de la Plata from first contact in 1516 to th...
The central argument of this work emerges from a simple question: how did indigenous groups react to...
The “discovery“ of America and the accompanying convergence of cultures unsettled and altered the vi...
This thesis takes a comparative approach in examining the reactions of residents of three seventeent...
During the sixteenth century, tens of thousands of people in the region which the Europeans called M...
This dissertation argues that Guaraní socio-cultural practices determined what Spaniards could and c...
Indigenous people are often seen as static recipients of transatlantic encounter, influencing the At...
Early in the morning of 12 October 1492, three Spanish ships settled off the beaches of San Salvador...
Shorter WorksThe Spaniards watched with bated breath. The dust, having been kicked up by hundreds of...
<p>On twelve October, 1492 the networks of the Old and New World ─ the former represented by Admiral...
A study of the representations of the indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean in European writing fr...
It is usually believed that Amerindian groups have tended either toward assimilation or toward the f...
This thesis explores the way three indigenous writers and leaders, in Peru, the US, and Canada, used...
The sixteenth-century Spanish conquest in the Americas has significantly altered world history. Unfo...
Using the travel writings of Amerigo Vespucci, the voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral and Jean de Léry’s...
This is a study of the early colonial period of the Río de la Plata from first contact in 1516 to th...
The central argument of this work emerges from a simple question: how did indigenous groups react to...
The “discovery“ of America and the accompanying convergence of cultures unsettled and altered the vi...
This thesis takes a comparative approach in examining the reactions of residents of three seventeent...
During the sixteenth century, tens of thousands of people in the region which the Europeans called M...
This dissertation argues that Guaraní socio-cultural practices determined what Spaniards could and c...