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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... question was inevitably raised as to the possibility of Flood survivors other than Noah and his family . It was quickly denounced . 47 By the mid - seventeenth century , Isaac de La Peyrère sought to circumvent the question by reviving ...
... question was inevitably raised as to the possibility of Flood survivors other than Noah and his family . It was quickly denounced . 47 By the mid - seventeenth century , Isaac de La Peyrère sought to circumvent the question by reviving ...
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... questions were easily resolved : if the world represented a single order , how had it been possible for other “ civilities ” to develop value scales so different from those of Europe ? Conversely , how could disparate civilizations ...
... questions were easily resolved : if the world represented a single order , how had it been possible for other “ civilities ” to develop value scales so different from those of Europe ? Conversely , how could disparate civilizations ...
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... question of man in relation to his society . The idea of savagery had been around for a long time , but what exactly did it mean ? How did it differ from civility ? A modern French definition of the word “ sauvage , ” that of Larousse ...
... question of man in relation to his society . The idea of savagery had been around for a long time , but what exactly did it mean ? How did it differ from civility ? A modern French definition of the word “ sauvage , ” that of Larousse ...
Contents
PARTI American Discoveries and European Images | 1 |
Early Contacts of Amerindians and Frenchmen | 87 |
Amerindians in Europe | 203 |
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