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Author Bialuschewski, Arne, author.

Title Raiders and natives : cross-cultural relations in the age of buccaneers / Arne Bialuschewski.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  972.8 BIA    Check Shelf
Description xi, 179 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Rise of the Buccaneers -- Mayas Besieged -- The Granada Raid -- Natives and Intruders in Central America -- Intercultural Alliances on the Mosquito Coast -- Shifting Alliances on Panamá's Darién Frontier -- The South Sea Incursions.
Summary "Raiders and Natives illuminates the relationships among-and conflicts between-European buccaneers and various Indigenous peoples in Central America during the seventeenth century. Like many of the Natives they encountered on their frequent inland excursions, most of these buccaneers-chiefly those flying under English, French, and Dutch flags-also viewed the Spanish and their colonial regime as an enemy. While this sort of geopolitical situation led to martial alliances, it also resulted in a variety of cross-cultural exchange that altered sociopolitical organization, material culture, subsistence economies, and military strategies for all involved. Building on what one reviewer has called "immense archival research," Bialuschewski's study untangles the wide variety of forms this cross-cultural exchange took. Although a "mutually beneficial long-term alliance" emerged between buccaneers and Natives on the Miskito Coast in Nicaragua-and succeeded in holding off Spanish colonization until the nineteenth-century-elsewhere cultural exchange took the form of abduction, enslavement, and sexual assault. By placing these encounters at the center of Raiders and Natives, Bialuschewski changes our understanding of the early modern Atlantic World and the cross-cultural relations that shaped it"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Pirates -- Central America -- History -- 17th century.
Indians of Central America -- History -- 17th century.
Central America -- History -- 17th century.
Spanish colonies. (OCoLC)fst01930866
Pirates -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century.
Indians of Central America. (OCoLC)fst00969430
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Central America -- History -- 17th century.
Subject Pirates. (OCoLC)fst01064776
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Subject Buccaneers. (OCoLC)fst00839967
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
Indians, Treatment of -- Central America -- History -- 17th century.
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Indians, Treatment of. (OCoLC)fst00970120
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Central America. (OCoLC)fst01244535
Caribbean Area. (OCoLC)fst01244080
Buccaneers.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- Central America -- History -- 17th century.
ISBN 9780820361833 hardcover
0820361836 hardcover
9780820361826 paperback
0820361828 paperback
9780820361819 electronic book
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