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European Expansion and Representations of Indigenous and African Peoples: A Distorted Vision book cover

1st Edition

European Expansion and Representations of Indigenous and African Peoples A Distorted Vision

By Ignacio Gallup-Díaz Copyright 2020
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents a bold, multifaceted interpretation of early English imperial actions by examining the ways in which English empire-builders and travelers interacted with Indigenous and African peoples during the long process of colonization in the Americas. Ignacio Gallup-Díaz argues that early English imperial actors were primarily motivated by practical concerns rather than abstract... Read more

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Empire Is Cruelty, and You Cannot Refine It; Chapter 1 A Spanish Typology of Black Resistance: The Rebel Slaves of Panamá; Chapter 2 Symerons, Sultans, and Specimens: Binary Opposition(s) in English Vernacular Imperialism; Chapter 3 Ambulatory Cartography: The English De-Hispanicization of America; Chapter 4 Roanoke Through an Irish Lens: Inconstant Lords and Their Love of Conspiracies; Chapter 5 Ralegh’s Empyre: Collusion and Misperception; Conclusion: Purple Haze; Appendix Drake (excerpts); Ingram; and Lane (excerpts)

Biography

Ignacio Gallup-Díaz is Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, and specializes in the history of the early modern Atlantic World. His research interests include the development of autonomous African and Indigenous communities, and he is the author of The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe (2001).

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