Meeting of Two Worlds - Europe and the Americas 1492-1650

Zusatztext For geographers interested in the early colonial Americas! the volume provides a very useful discussion of key topics! and the generous referencing to an ample literature facilitates the pursuit of further research publications...this is a valuable...addition to the literature. Zusammenfassung Heroic endeavour or diaster of hemispheric proportions? What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations.This volume brings together 11 scholars - from both sides of the Atantic and from the disciplines of history, archaeology, anthropology, geography and biology - to discuss the nature of the European conquest and its consequences.A major them is the complex process by which Europeans and Amerindians adapted to create new criollo cultures which are distinctively American: the successess and failures of this process are evident in Latin America today.The multidisciplinary scope of this volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the enormous changes that followed Columbus' expedition.

Product details

• Authors: Warwick Bray, Warwick (Professor of Latin American Archaeo Bray, Bray Warwick
• Assisted by: Warwick Bray (Editor), Warwick (Professor of Latin American Archaeology Bray (Editor), Bray Warwick (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.1994
• EAN: 9780197261347
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726134-7
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Academy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Sociology & anthropology, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, The Americas, Geographical discovery and exploration, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Sociology and anthropology, C 1600 To C 1700