Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400-1900: Europe, Africa, and the Americas in an Age of Exploration, Trade, and Empires

Local leaders still retained their usefulness and often acted as auxiliaries to their Spanish and Portuguese overlords.[...]European cultural influence was often paper thin and indigenous tribal life carried on.Head has an article on Potosi and the book covers all the best-known products of colonial...

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Published in:Reference reviews 2018-06, Vol.32 (5), p.26-28
Main Author: Kendall, John
Format: Article
Language:English
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Encyclopedias
History
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Summary:Local leaders still retained their usefulness and often acted as auxiliaries to their Spanish and Portuguese overlords.[...]European cultural influence was often paper thin and indigenous tribal life carried on.Head has an article on Potosi and the book covers all the best-known products of colonial America: gold, rum, rice, furs, tobacco, chocolate, mahogany, potato and the most important of them, sugar.[...]he claims that African-Americans lived out their lives in a fusion between the two.[...]for serious readers, a section on the historiography of the subject would have been good.
ISSN:0950-4125
1758-7697
DOI:10.1108/RR-02-2018-0038