Bárbaros Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment
Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways and often possessing firearms, independent...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Savants, savages, and new sensibilities
- Savages and Spaniards: natives transformed
- The science of creating men
- A good war or a bad peace?
- Trading, gifting, and treating
- Crossing borders
- Epilogue: Insurgents and savages, from inclusion to exclusion.