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Bárbaros: Spaniards and their savages in the Age of Enlightenment

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.
Print Book, English, [2005]
Yale University Press, New Haven, [2005]
Historia
XVIII, 466 p. il., mapas 26 cm.
9780300105018, 0300105010
434417226
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
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