Contact Strategies : Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil /
Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Reference Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Facing Empire
- 2 Why Embrace the Whites?
- 3 Practices of Peace
- 4 A Return to War Is Always Possible
- 5 Against Extinction
- Conclusion
- Appendix Indigenous Groups Discussed in the Text
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index