Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763When the natives of Hispaniola first told Christopher Columbus of their feared enemies to the east - using the Arawak word caniba or carib - the admiral considered two possible explanations. Either these fierce warriors were soldiers of the nearby Great Khan (Spanish can) or they were cannibals. Europeans' dawning awareness of New World geography soon proved Columbus's first theory wrong. But the second has persisted for centuries. In Cannibal Encounters Philip Boucher analyzes the images - and the realities - of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Boucher begins by examining the current debate about the Caribs' ethnic origins and the controversy over their supposed cannibalism. Subsequent chapters show how French and English Caribbean policies evolved and how those policies were related to - and influenced by - literary and cultural images in the work of such thinkers as Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Although the French and the English developed similar plantation economies that meant harsh treatment for the Caribs, French relations with the islanders were usually less strained than those of the British. Among the reasons for this difference, Boucher argues, were the benevolent influence of French missionaries and merchants and the firm hand of French government, which restrained colonialists' worst excesses. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations. |
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... cause of the conflict . Du Parquet's occupation of the Grenadines ( Bequia especially ) was the most recent evidence ... cause of the final phase of this five - year war.84 However , the intellig cause , destroy of loss Martin opposi ...
... cause of the conflict . Du Parquet's occupation of the Grenadines ( Bequia especially ) was the most recent evidence ... cause of the final phase of this five - year war.84 However , the intellig cause , destroy of loss Martin opposi ...
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... cause célèbre , the Warner affair . This Antiguan action crushed any English aspirations for improved relations with Island Caribs . 102 Appointed in 1672 by Wheler to the highest office in Antigua , deputy governor , Philip Warner was ...
... cause célèbre , the Warner affair . This Antiguan action crushed any English aspirations for improved relations with Island Caribs . 102 Appointed in 1672 by Wheler to the highest office in Antigua , deputy governor , Philip Warner was ...
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... cause what douceur with which we have treated them for forty years , having sent them missionaries for religious purposes , the massacres that they commit the first chance that they have even including priests at the altar . 149 This ...
... cause what douceur with which we have treated them for forty years , having sent them missionaries for religious purposes , the massacres that they commit the first chance that they have even including priests at the altar . 149 This ...
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Europeans and Island Caribs in | 13 |
EuroCarib Relations during | 31 |
The Island Carib Struggle | 61 |
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