TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber,David J.
TI  - Bárbaros: Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment 
SN  - 9780300127676 (electronic bk.)
AV  - E59.C58 W43 2005eb
U1  - 323.1197/0171246/09033 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Indians
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Missions
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Indiens d'Amérique
KW  - Colonisation
KW  - Relations avec l'État
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Spain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - America
KW  - Administration
KW  - New Spain
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - History
KW  - To 1810
KW  - Espagne
KW  - Amérique
KW  - Nouvelle-Espagne
KW  - Découverte et exploration
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 1810
KW  - ისტორია--
KW  - განმანათლებლობის ეპოქა--
KW  - ამერიკის ისტორია--
KW  - კოლონიალიზმი
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-440) and index; Introduction -- Savants, savages, and new sensibilities -- Savages and Spaniards: natives transformed -- The science of creating men -- A good war or a bad peace? -- Trading, gifting, and treating -- Crossing borders -- Epilogue: Insurgents and savages, from inclusion to exclusion
N2  - Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries. In this panoramic study, David Weber explains how late eighteenth-century Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called barbaros, or 'savages'. Even Spain's most powerful monarchs failed, however, to enforce a consistent, well-reasoned policy toward Indians. At one extreme, powerful independent Indians forced Spaniards to seek peace, acknowledge autonomous tribal governments and recognise the existence of tribal lands, fulfilling the Crown's oft-stated wish to use 'gentle' means in dealing with Indians. At the other extreme the Crown abandoned its principles, authorising bloody wars on Indians when Spanish officers believed they could defeat them. Power, says Weber, more than the power of ideas, determined how Spaniards treated 'savages' in the Age of Enlightenment
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