Record details

• ISBN: 2040144994
• ISBN: 9782040144999
• Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
• Publisher: [Paris] : Bordas ; ©1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Cover and spine title: Americas lost.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 189) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- 'As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords' / Michael Barry -- The first encounters with the Americans / Daniel Lévine -- The Aztecs / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The Incas / Jean-François Bouchard -- Chronicle of an encounter in the land of Canada / Anne Vitart -- American curiosities / Anne Vitart -- The conversion of the Indians, from Santo Domingo to Mexico / Christian Duverger -- Indian North America, in the turmoil of colonization / Philippe Jacquin -- Colonial America : a land of synthesis / Georges Baudot -- America : continent of miscengenation / Ricardo Avila Palafox -- From the encounter to Utopia / Miguel León-Portilla -- Chronology -- America and the English renaissance : Shakespeare's 'Tempest' (1611) / Michael Barry.

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Subject:

America > Discovery and exploration.
America > History > To 1803.
Indians > First contact with other peoples.
Indians > Antiquities.
America > Antiquities.
Amérique > Antiquités.
Antiquities
Discoveries in geography
Indians > Antiquities
Indians > First contact with other peoples
America

Genre:

History