1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971677703321

Autore

Weber David J

Titolo

Barbaros : Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment / / David J. Weber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786611729608

9781281729606

1281729604

9780300127676

0300127677

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

The Lamar Series in Western History

Disciplina

323.1197/0171246/09033

Soggetti

Indians - Colonization

Indians - Missions

Indians - Government relations

Spain Colonies America Administration

New Spain Colonization

America Discovery and exploration

America History To 1810

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-440) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Two centuries after Cortés 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 J. Weber explains how late



eighteenthcentury Spanish administrators tried to fashion a more enlightened policy toward the people they called bárbaros, 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 recognize 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, authorizing 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910886073903321

Autore

Korte Barbara <1957->

Titolo

Travel in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1900 : Media Logic and Cultural Work / / by Barbara Korte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031641978

3031641973

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Creative nonfiction

Comparative literature

Printing

Publishers and publishing

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Non-Fiction Literature

Comparative Literature

Printing and Publishing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The Nexus of Travel, Travel Writing and Periodicals 1850–1900 -- 2. The Entanglement of Periodicals and Travel in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Travel in the Leisure Hour -- 4. Good Words: Travel in a Sixties Magazine -- 5. Travel in Victorian Women’s Periodicals -- 6. Travel in Juvenile Periodicals: BOP and GOP -- 7. Working People’s Travel in the Periodical Press, 1850 to 1870 -- 8. Conclusions and Outlook to Other Media.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. By the 1860s, travel articles had become a staple of the periodicals market and reached readers who might never have travelled far themselves or bought a travel book. This monograph demonstrates that the representation of travel in Victorian periodicals came in forms and with cultural functions that differed from book publication, and that this media-specific representation helped to inscribe travel into the Victorian lifeworld. Based on a corpus of several general-interest periodicals targeted at different audiences, this book investigates how different readers - the family, women, young people and the working classes - engaged with travel. It argues that travel articles in periodicals performed significant cultural work because they accommodated readers to travel. Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany, with a special interest in culture and media. She has published widely on travel writing and Victorian periodicals, including English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).