Description
Book Synopsisaeo This is the first history of exploration to focus on the experience of non--European peoples who were colonized. aeo It is an extremely wide--ranging work of comparative history, which draws its case studies from the cultural encounters and collisions initiated by the English, Spanish, Portugese and French.
Trade Review'A delight to read ... a major contribution to colonial history ... it is a book that should influence the research and writing of others, for years to come.'
Journal of Historical Geography 'This book deserves a place on the shelf of any scholar interested in the way cultures, cosmologies, and economic systems interact.' The Historian
'Uniquely readable.' Phoblacht / Republican News
'This book will serve for many readers as an English language introduction to the work of the Swiss historian, Urs Bitterli. Besides its interesting interpretations, the book will be valued for its introduction to a large body of documentary sources....' AJPH
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
1. Types of Cultural Encounter:.
Contacts, Collisions, and Relationships.
2. The System of Limited Contacts:.
The Portuguese in Africa and Asia.
3. Cultural Collision:.
The Spaniards on Hispaniola.
4. Missionary Work as a Cultural Relationship:.
The French in Canada.
5. Cultural Relationship as 'Holy Experiment':.
The English in Pennsylvania.
6. The `Controlled Relationship':.
The Europeans in China.
7. Cultural Contact as a Scientific Challenge:.
The English and French in the South Seas.
Notes.
Index.
