Subject:
The "discovery" of America by Columbus initiated a series of cultural contacts between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in the Western Hemisphere. Each of these peoples brought preconceptions molded by their long histories into their contacts with other peoples, and each people was molded by contact with others. Chapter one places these complex, often unsettling events within a framework of encounters--rather than exploration or settlement--and recaptures the full human dimensions of conquest and resistance.
