Bárbaros Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment

Two centuries after Cortés 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...

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1. Verfasser: Weber, David
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale University Press 11.09.2005
Ausgabe:1
Schriftenreihe:The Lamar Series in Western History
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Administration
America
America > Discovery and exploration
America > History > To 1810
Colonies
Colonization
Discovery and exploration
Government relations
HISTORY
HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
Indians
Indians > Colonization
Indians > Government relations
Indians > Missions
Missions
New Spain
New Spain > Colonization
Spain
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration
To 1810
ISBN:0300105010, 9780300105018, 9780300127676, 0300127677
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Zusammenfassung:Two centuries after Cortés 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 J. Weber explains how late eighteenthcentury Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they calledbárbaros,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 recognize 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, authorizing 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0300105010
9780300105018
9780300127676
0300127677
DOI:10.12987/9780300127676