Bárbaros : Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment /

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"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, indepe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weber, David J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
Colección:The Lamar Series in Western History
Temas:
To 1810
Indians > Colonization.
Indians > Missions.
Indians > Government relations.
Peuples autochtones > Colonisation.
Peuples autochtones > Missions.
Peuples autochtones > Relations avec l'État.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > Europe > Spain & Portugal.
Colonization.
Discoveries in geography.
Colonies > Administration.
Spanish colonies.
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration.
New Spain > Colonization.
America > Discovery and exploration.
America > History > To 1810.
Espagne > Colonies > Amérique > Administration.
Nouvelle-Espagne > Colonisation.
Amérique > Découverte et exploration.
Amérique > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
America.
New Spain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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 Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries. In this panoramic study, David Weber explains how late eighteenth-century Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called barbaros, or 'savages'. Even Spain's most powerful monarchs failed, however, to enforce a consistent, well-reasoned policy toward Indians. At one extreme, powerful independent Indians forced Spaniards to seek peace, acknowledge autonomous tribal governments and recognise the existence of tribal lands, fulfilling the Crown's oft-stated wish to use 'gentle' means in dealing with Indians. At the other extreme the Crown abandoned its principles, authorising bloody wars on Indians when Spanish officers believed they could defeat them. Power, says Weber, more than the power of ideas, determined how Spaniards treated 'savages' in the Age of Enlightenment."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 466 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-440) and index.
ISBN:9780300127676
0300127677
1281729604
9781281729606
9786611729608
6611729607

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