Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763

Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763

by Philip P. Boucher
ISBN-10:
0801890993
ISBN-13:
2900801890993
Pub. Date:
05/25/2009
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763

Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763

by Philip P. Boucher
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Overview

Winner of the French Colonial Historical Society's Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize

Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 2900801890993
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 05/25/2009
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Philip P. Boucher is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and author of France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? also published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface to the PAperback Edition
Preface
Introduction
1. First Impressions: Europeans and Island Caribs in the Precolonial Era, 1492-1623
2. Realpolitik Caribbean Style: Euro-Carib Relations during the Europeans Invasion, 1623-1660
3. Between Lion and Rooster: The Island Carib Struggle forAutonomy, 1660-1688
4. "As if no such people existed": Island Caribs in Decline, 1689-1763
5. Age of Iron to Age of Sentimentality: Island Caribs in the European Literary Imagination, 1660s-1760s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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No one has mined the French National Archives to this extent on this topic. Boucher renders valuable information accessible to English readers.
—Robert A. Myers, Alfred University

Robert A. Myers

No one has mined the French National Archives to this extent on this topic. Boucher renders valuable information accessible to English readers.

Robert A. Myers, Alfred University

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