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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Page xi
... political landscapes ; city states such as those of the Incas and Mexicas disappeared , as did a variety of hierarchical chiefdoms ; only a few societies survived , incorporated more or less uneasily within new political frameworks ...
... political landscapes ; city states such as those of the Incas and Mexicas disappeared , as did a variety of hierarchical chiefdoms ; only a few societies survived , incorporated more or less uneasily within new political frameworks ...
Page 125
... political thinking of the sixteenth century , such an order meant centralization , whether of a state or of an empire , based on an absolute monarchy . It was not a governmental theory that enjoyed unqualified support ; Spain , for one ...
... political thinking of the sixteenth century , such an order meant centralization , whether of a state or of an empire , based on an absolute monarchy . It was not a governmental theory that enjoyed unqualified support ; Spain , for one ...
Page 277
... political . Both forms interfered with the happiness of mankind , the former by submitting to nature , the latter by outraging it . Such an intellectual tolerance of Amerindian civilizations found little reflection in the politics of ...
... political . Both forms interfered with the happiness of mankind , the former by submitting to nature , the latter by outraging it . Such an intellectual tolerance of Amerindian civilizations found little reflection in the politics of ...
Contents
PARTI American Discoveries and European Images | 1 |
Early Contacts of Amerindians and Frenchmen | 87 |
Amerindians in Europe | 203 |
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