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American pentimento : the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches /
An illuminating examination of colonizations ongoing cultural legacy. Patricia Seed examines how European countries, primarily England, Spain, and Portugal, differed in their colonization of the Americas, with the English appropriating land, while the Spanish and Portuguese attempted to eliminate &q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Public worlds ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Maps; Preface; American Pentimento: An Introduction; 1 Owning Land by Labor, Money, and Treaty; 2 Imagining a Waste Land; or, Why Indians Vanish; 3 Gendering Native Americans: Hunters as Anglo-America's Partial Fiction; 4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor; 5 Tribute and Social Humiliation: The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands; 6 Cannibals: Iberia's Partial Truth; 7 Sustaining Political Identities: The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers; 8 Indians in Portuguese America; 9 Fast Forward: The Impact of Independence on Colonial Structures.