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Author Williams, Caroline A

Title Between Resistance and Adaptation : Indigenous Peoples and the Colonisation in the Choc, 1510-1753
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Series Liverpool Latin American Studies, 5
Liverpool Latin American Studies, 5
Contents Title Page; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Discovery, Exploration and First Experiments in Colonisation; 2: The Adelantado Juan Velez de Guevara and the Colonisation of the Chocó, 1638-1643; 3: New Experiments in Colonisation, 1666-1673; 4: Conversion and Control: The Franciscans in the Chocó, 1673-1677; 5: Protest and Rebellion, 1680-1684; 6: Government and Society on the Frontier; 7: Resistance and Adaptation under Spanish Rule: The Peoples of Citará, 1700-1750; 8: Conclusion; Appendix: The Chocó: Towns and Mining Camps (c.1753); Bibliography; Index
Summary A study of the interactions between Indians and Spaniards in the Choc throughout much of the colonial period, revealing the complexity of inter-ethnic relations in frontier regions. The author considers the changing relationships not only between Spaniards and Indians but also between factions of both groups, showing how Spaniards and Indians sometimes allied with each other against other ethnically mixed groups with different agendas. No similar study covers this topic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Colonization.
Diplomatic relations.
Ethnic relations.
SUBJECT Colombia -- Foreign relations -- Spain
Spain -- Foreign relations -- Colombia
Chocó (Colombia) -- History
Chocó (Colombia) -- Ethnic relations
Chocó (Colombia) -- Colonization
Subject Colombia.
Colombia -- Chocó
Spain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846312670
1846312671
0853236992
9780853236993
0853237298
9780853237297