A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820
Language: English
Pages: 562
ISBN: 0521727340
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A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social, and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking, and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject.
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Atlas, made by a Jewish cartographer for the king of France in 1375, reveals the equally illfated voyage of Jaime Ferrer, shown sailing in 1346 for the “River of Gold,” as the Senegal was known to European cartographers, also never to return. Some Christians thought that the Muslims had fared better; an anonymous Franciscan, writing in 1350, described regular voyages conducted by North African Muslims to the gold fields of West Africa, but it was fantasy.15 If the Canary current forbade.
Spanish.74 Likewise, the cacique Manaure of Caiquetía welcomed the expedition under Juan de Amprés, who founded Santa Ana de Coro in his lands, and in recognition Caiquetia was charged no tribute – a situation that was still prevailing 200 years later in 1723.75 In the first few years of Spanish settlement of the coastal towns, the governors of all the towns went on expeditions into the interior, seeking to acquire gold and other valuables from those caciques in the area who agreed to support.
In the southern Caribbean. They had interests in the Amazon, and one of their allies established an English colony in St. Christopher (modern day St. Kitts) in 1624, and then two years later another colony in Barbados. These colonies had less to do with privateering than with growing crops, focusing on tobacco in their earliest years. The Spanish knew their dangers, and on one occasion, in 1629, they managed to capture and depopulate St. Christopher (although the colonists soon reoccupied it). If.
And they thought it strange that these other halves could endure such an injustice, and did not take the others by the throat and set fire to their houses.”2 The French, not deterred by this sort of attitude, later tried a similar visit with Savignon, an Iroquois brought to France by Samuel de Champlain in 1609. Upon his return to Canada, he eschewed going back to France, for he told his friends that although France had wonders, he was upset by the “great number of needy and beggars,” and that.
Unambiguous and even pointed on this issue; see Stephen Potter, Commoners, Tribute and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley (Charlottesville, 1993), pp. 17–18, quoting Haynes’s 1984 MA thesis at the University of Virginia. 127 Michael Heckenberger, The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000–2000 (London, 2005), pp. 37–66 for an overview, and the remainder of the book for specific exploration of the Xingu River cultures; see.