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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... minister who showed an aversion to stereotypes , tasted and found lizard so good that he talked of nothing else . The experiment was repeated by Jean Mocquet ( 1575-1618 ? ) , geographer 23 The great stores of food maintained by ...
... minister who showed an aversion to stereotypes , tasted and found lizard so good that he talked of nothing else . The experiment was repeated by Jean Mocquet ( 1575-1618 ? ) , geographer 23 The great stores of food maintained by ...
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... ministers of the king were the persecutors of the Amerindians as they profited from that which they took from the Indians . ” Such officials , he said , found it more convenient to pass the Amerindians off as rebels and criminals than ...
... ministers of the king were the persecutors of the Amerindians as they profited from that which they took from the Indians . ” Such officials , he said , found it more convenient to pass the Amerindians off as rebels and criminals than ...
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... minister , Cotton Mather ( 1663-1728 ) . See , for example , his Magnalia Christi Americana . 23. Hanke , “ Cultural Contribution , ” 276-277 . Hanke compiled these observations from the first part of Oviedo's Historia general ( 1535 ) ...
... minister , Cotton Mather ( 1663-1728 ) . See , for example , his Magnalia Christi Americana . 23. Hanke , “ Cultural Contribution , ” 276-277 . Hanke compiled these observations from the first part of Oviedo's Historia general ( 1535 ) ...
Contents
PARTI American Discoveries and European Images | 1 |
Early Contacts of Amerindians and Frenchmen | 87 |
Amerindians in Europe | 203 |
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