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New World, First Nations
David Cahill
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Description for New World, First Nations
Hardcover. This volume compares the colonial experience of native peoples of the conquered Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations, from the 16th to the early 19th centuries. Editor(s): Cahill, David; Tovias, Blanca. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLSX; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534.
The Spanish conquest and colonisation of the Americas dramatically transformed the lives of native peoples in Mesoamerica and the Andes. This revolutionary and multilayered process varied greatly in its intensity and timing from region to region, but in all cases radically changed indigenous societies, their values and beliefs. The encounter between native peoples and the Spanish conquistadors and later settlers was marked by violence and drastic, epidemic-driven population decline. This dislocatory phase gradually gave way to myriad forms of accommodation, resistance, and social, cultural and religious hybridity -- the colonial heritage of Spanish America. The innovative essays in this volume ... Read more
The Spanish conquest and colonisation of the Americas dramatically transformed the lives of native peoples in Mesoamerica and the Andes. This revolutionary and multilayered process varied greatly in its intensity and timing from region to region, but in all cases radically changed indigenous societies, their values and beliefs. The encounter between native peoples and the Spanish conquistadors and later settlers was marked by violence and drastic, epidemic-driven population decline. This dislocatory phase gradually gave way to myriad forms of accommodation, resistance, and social, cultural and religious hybridity -- the colonial heritage of Spanish America. The innovative essays in this volume ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903900635
SKU
V9781903900635
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99-11
About David Cahill
David Cahill is Professorial Fellow, School of History, University of New South Wales. He has recently published From Rebellion to Independence in the Andes: Soundings from Southern Peru, 1750-1830, and (with co-author Peter Bradley) of Habsburg Peru: Images, Imagination and Memory. Blanca Tovías is a Researcher at UNSW and the editor (with David Cahill) of Élites Indígenas en ... Read more
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