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Author Bialuschewski, Arne, author

Title Raiders and natives : cross-cultural relations in the age of buccaneers / Arne Bialuschewski
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The Rise of the Buccaneers -- Mayas Besieged -- The Granada Raid -- Natives and Intruders in Central America -- Intercultural Alliances on the Mosquito Coast -- Shifting Alliances on Panamá's Darién Frontier -- The South Sea Incursions
Summary "Raiders and Natives illuminates the relationships among-and conflicts between-European buccaneers and various Indigenous peoples in Central America during the seventeenth century. Like many of the Natives they encountered on their frequent inland excursions, most of these buccaneers-chiefly those flying under English, French, and Dutch flags-also viewed the Spanish and their colonial regime as an enemy. While this sort of geopolitical situation led to martial alliances, it also resulted in a variety of cross-cultural exchange that altered sociopolitical organization, material culture, subsistence economies, and military strategies for all involved. Building on what one reviewer has called "immense archival research," Bialuschewski's study untangles the wide variety of forms this cross-cultural exchange took. Although a "mutually beneficial long-term alliance" emerged between buccaneers and Natives on the Miskito Coast in Nicaragua-and succeeded in holding off Spanish colonization until the nineteenth-century-elsewhere cultural exchange took the form of abduction, enslavement, and sexual assault. By placing these encounters at the center of Raiders and Natives, Bialuschewski changes our understanding of the early modern Atlantic World and the cross-cultural relations that shaped it"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Indians of Central America -- History -- 17th century
Buccaneers.
Pirates -- Central America -- History -- 17th century
Pirates -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century
Indians, Treatment of -- Central America -- History -- 17th century
Indians -- History -- 17th century -- Central America
Indians
Buccaneers
Indians of Central America
Indians, Treatment of
Pirates
Spanish colonies
SUBJECT Central America -- History -- 17th century
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
Subject America
Caribbean Area
Central America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820361819
082036181X