Parution : On savage shores : how indigenous Americans discovered Europe

Créateur

• Dodds Pennock, Caroline (1978-….)

Résumé

We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the ‘Old World’ encountered the ‘New’, when Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others – enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders – the reverse was true: they discovered Europe. For them, Europe comprised savage shores, a land of riches and marvels, yet perplexing for its brutal disparities of wealth and quality of life, and its baffling beliefs. The story of these Indigenous Americans abroad is a story of abduction, loss, cultural appropriation, and, as they saw it, of apocalypse – a story that has largely been absent from our collective imagination of the times.

Informations pratiques

• Éditeur : London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date de parution : 2023
• Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI- 302 p., [16] p. de pl.) : ill. en coul., cartes ; 24 cm
• Annexes : Notes bibliographiques. Index
• ISBN 978-1-4746-1691-1 (br.)
• Sujets :
  • Indiens d’Amérique — Influence transatlantique
  • Europe — Découverte et exploration
  • Indiens d’Amérique — Voyages — Europe — 16e siècle
  • Colonisation — Amérique — 16e siècle
  • Europe — Dans les représentations sociales — Amérique — 16e siècle

Localisations

• PARIS-BnF
• PARIS-Terra Foundation

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