The Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the AmericasA classic study of early contact between European explorers and North American natives. When the two cultures met in the fifteenth century, it meant great upheavals for the Amerindians, but strengthened the Europeans' move toward nation-states and capitalism. |
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... became chiefly a literary and theoretical position , while the one downgrading them became the guide for practical politics . The negative view was expressed in negative terms ; practically every description of New World men by ...
... became chiefly a literary and theoretical position , while the one downgrading them became the guide for practical politics . The negative view was expressed in negative terms ; practically every description of New World men by ...
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... became identified with the Germanic comic devil , Hellekin , leader of the Wild Horde . Hellekin was particularly strongly entrenched in the north ; his marriage to the mythical Luque La Maudite in Rouen during the thirteenth century is ...
... became identified with the Germanic comic devil , Hellekin , leader of the Wild Horde . Hellekin was particularly strongly entrenched in the north ; his marriage to the mythical Luque La Maudite in Rouen during the thirteenth century is ...
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... became a maxim that every Spaniard who crossed the ocean became a caballero , or every Frenchman a seigneur , no matter how humble his condition had been originally . But the process did not work in reverse . Amerindians who came to ...
... became a maxim that every Spaniard who crossed the ocean became a caballero , or every Frenchman a seigneur , no matter how humble his condition had been originally . But the process did not work in reverse . Amerindians who came to ...
Contents
PARTI American Discoveries and European Images | 1 |
Early Contacts of Amerindians and Frenchmen | 87 |
Amerindians in Europe | 203 |
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