Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe

Name: Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe : Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in Darién, 1640-1750
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Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in Darién, 1640-1750

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz

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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»

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

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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»