Название: Contested Spaces of Early America
Автор: Juliana Barr, Edward Countryman
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245849
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 444
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 14,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the meeting, mingling, and clashing of peoples, creating societies unlike any that the world had seen before.