Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe
«A fresh interpretation [of]... how indigenous societies succeeded in keeping foreign powers at a distance. American Historical Review The great strength... is its engagement with ethno-historical approaches and its uses of historical documentation to establish the cultural dynamic and relationship of the various historical actors. American Historical Association Ignacio Gallup-Diaz's incisive, theoretically sophisticated, and absorbing [study]... advances Isthmian ethnohistory by a whole order of magnitude. -- James Howe Ethnohistory»
The European powers were forced to make the Kuna people of present-day Panama and Columbia an integral part of their calculus of empire. Yet the Kunas created new forms of leadership out of foreign contacts, enabling their own survival. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231138741
- Utgave
- 2. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2005
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«A fresh interpretation [of]... how indigenous societies succeeded in keeping foreign powers at a distance. American Historical Review The great strength... is its engagement with ethno-historical approaches and its uses of historical documentation to establish the cultural dynamic and relationship of the various historical actors. American Historical Association Ignacio Gallup-Diaz's incisive, theoretically sophisticated, and absorbing [study]... advances Isthmian ethnohistory by a whole order of magnitude. -- James Howe Ethnohistory»