The process of European expansion brought into contact across the world societies and cultures initially alien to one another. Conflict, and violent conflict, was one aspect of this interaction, but accommodation, mutual adaptation, and institutional and behavioural synthesis were also present though often biased in favour of European norms. The intent of this book is to avoid treating ’colonization’, ’dominance’ and exploitation’ as the only focuses of attention. In the first volume Robert Forster explores issues of formative influences, the impact of Eurocentrism on historiography and the reaction against it, and the differing approaches and perceptions of the Europeans, notably the Spanish, French and English. In this period he distinguishes three modes of interaction: that of the trading empires, generally in Africa and Asia, where the European control of the encounter was slighter; and those of the regions of settlement, as in North America, and of exploitation, typified by the Caribbean, where the European impact was profound. The second volume focuses on the Americas, and uses the topics of religion, class, gender, and race as its points of entry.
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Twenty-five articles concentrate on the interaction of societies and cultures initially alien to one another. Conflict is an obvious interaction, but accommodation, adaptation, and institutional and behavioural synthesis were also present, though one-sided in favour of European norms.
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Contents: Volume I: Contents: Introduction; The Longue Durée: Portuguese and Chinese maritime imperialism: Camões’s Lusiads and Luo Maodeng’s Voyage of the San Bao Eunuch, Robert Finlay; Feudalism, capitalism, and the world-system in the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean, Steve J. Stern; Hacienda-Indian community relations and Indian acculturation: an historiographical essay, Edwin P. Grieshaber; Land, population, and the evolution of New England society, 1630-1790, Kenneth Lockridge; Time, space and the evolution of Afro-American society on British mainland North America, Ira Berlin; Eurocentrism: The ethnohistory of early America: a review essay, James Axtell; Early native North American responses to European contact: romantic versus rationalistic interpretations, Bruce G. Trigger; We are well as we are: an Indian critique of 17th-century Christian missions, James P. Ronda; Are these not also men? The Indian’s humanity and capacity for Spanish civilization, Patricia Seed; Europeans and Amerindians: some comparative aspects of early contact, Olive Patricia Dickason; Encounters on the periphery of Africa and Asia: Trade and politics behind the slave coast: the lagoon traffic and the rise of Lagos, 1500-1800, Robin Law; Beyond the Cape: the Portuguese encounter with the peoples of south Asia, Chandra Richard de Silva; Peasant survival strategies and rehearsals for rebellion in 18th-century south India, Eugene F. Irschick. Volume II: Religion: Inquisition of the Indians?: the inquisitorial model and the repression of Andean religion in 17th-century Peru, Nicholas Griffiths; Pachacuti: miracles, punishments, and Last Judgement: visionary past and prophetic future in early colonial Peru, Sabine MacCormack; Landscape and world view: the survival of Yucatec Maya culture under Spanish conquest, Inga Clendinnen; Class: Race and class in colonial Latin America: a critique, Robert McCaa, Stuart B. Schwartz and Arturo Grubbessich; Spanish s
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'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1
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9780860785217
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1997-12-11
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Ashgate Publishing Limited
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1739 gr
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UU, UP, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Robert Forster, Johns Hopkins University, USA Robert Finlay, Steve J. Stern, Edwin P. Grieshaber, Kenneth Lockridge, Ira Berlin, Bruce G. Trigger, James P. Ronda, Patricia Seed, Olive Patricia Dickason, Robin Law, Richard de Silva, Eugene F. Irschick, Nicholas Griffiths, Sabine MacCormack, Inga Clendinnen, Robert McCaa, Stuart B. Schwartz, Arturo Grubbessich, Ida Altman, A. J. R. Russell-Wood, Ruth Behar, George E. Brooks, Jr., Natalie Zemon Davis, John Garrigus, David Geggus, Carolyn E. Fick.