The meeting of two worlds : Europe and the Americas, 1492-1650 / edited by Warwick Bray.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1993.
Description
336 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 25 cm.

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Series
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
  • The nature of the conquest and the conquistadors / Alistair Hennessy
  • The cultural mosaic of the indigenous Caribbean / Samuel M. Wilson
  • From contact to Criollos : the archaeology of Spanish colonization in Hispaniola / Kathleen Deagan and José Maria Cruxent
  • Worlds in collision : the Maya/Spanish encounter in sixteenth and seventeenth century Belize / David M. Pendergast
  • Sacred power in colonial Mexico : the case of sixteenth century central Yucatan / Nancy Farriss --
  • Trauma and transition in sixteenth century central Mexico / Frances F. Berdan
  • Native American cultures along the Atlantic littoral of South America, 1499-1650 / Neil L. Whitehead
  • On biological exchanges between the two worlds / Don Brothwell
  • The demographic collapse of native peoples of the Americas, 1492-1650 / Linda A. Newson
  • Crop plants and cannibals : early European impressions of the new world / Warwick Bray
ISBN
0197261345
LCCN
gb 94021872
OCLC
30112040
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