Conquest of the Americas /
"Why was Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 arguably the most important event in the history of the world? Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University argues that it gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today by creating a collision between three...
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2001]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. lecture 1. Three peoples collide ; lecture 2. The Native Americans ; lecture 3. Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas ; lecture 4. Europeans and Africans ; lecture 5. European overseas expansion ; lecture 6. Christopher Columbus : path to conquest ; lecture 7. Stepping stones : the conquest of the Caribbean ; lecture 8. The rise of Hernán Cortés ; lecture 9. The fall of Montezuma ; lecture 10. Conquistadors and Incas ; lecture 11. The frontiers of empire ; lecture 12. Portugese Brazil : the King's plantation
- pt. 2. lecture 13. The Atlantic slave trade ; lecture 14. Haciendas and plantations ; lecture 15. American silver and Spanish galleons ; lecture 16. The sword and the cross ; lecture 17. New peoples, new religions ; lecture 18. Late arrivals : the English in North America ; lecture 19. Conquest by dispossession ; lecture 20. Late arrivals : the French in the Americas ; lecture 21. Pirates of the Caribbean ; lecture 22. Clash of cultures : victors and vanquished ; lecture 23. The rise of 'American' identities ; lecture 24. The Americas : collisions and convergence.