European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800 : Volume II
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9780429260148 |
| Open Library | OL21658144W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2019 - 2019 |
| Language | EN |
European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800
Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women's Powers
The approaching quincentenary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean is stimulating much discussion about how the native peoples of the New World perceived and reacted to European intruders during the sixteenth century. Indian folk traditions, often recorded generations after the events occurred, suggest that native North Americans believed the first European ships they saw to be floating islands inhabited by supernatural spirits and …
"Inquisition of the Indians?"
As the Portuguese eventually discovered, the so-called white Christians were in fact Chinese. On the East African coast, Vasco da Gama’s men apparently were first mistaken for Chinese, for the last pale-skinned strangers in large wooden ships seen in that area came from China. In a sense, the Portuguese may be said to have first encountered the Chinese on the western coast of India, about twenty years before Portuguese ships reached China itself.…
European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800
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European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800
European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800
Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women's Powers
The approaching quincentenary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean is stimulating much discussion about how the native peoples of the New World perceived and reacted to European intruders during the sixteenth century. Indian folk traditions, often recorded generations after the events occurred, suggest that native North Americans believed the first European ships they saw to be floating islands inhabited by supernatural spirits and …
"Inquisition of the Indians?"
As the Portuguese eventually discovered, the so-called white Christians were in fact Chinese. On the East African coast, Vasco da Gama’s men apparently were first mistaken for Chinese, for the last pale-skinned strangers in large wooden ships seen in that area came from China. In a sense, the Portuguese may be said to have first encountered the Chinese on the western coast of India, about twenty years before Portuguese ships reached China itself.…