Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe

Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in Darién, 1640-1750

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

Av Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College) Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio (Associate Professor

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-11-05
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGutenberg-e
Antal sidor363
Upplaga2
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231138741

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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