The Early Modern Atlantic World

Focusing on a comparison of early modern texts representing the encounter between Europeans and native Americans from a variety of perspectives (Spanish, Nahuatl, French, English) and a variety of genres (letters, history, ethnography, poetry, drama), we will examine the convergence of hitherto separated cultures in a key region of the emerging global world: the Atlantic. Such world shaping movements as European exploration, colonization, religious conversion, and criticism of these movements, as well as the destruction, resistance, preservation, and cultural change of indigenous inhabitants and their cultures will be examined. All texts will be read in translation.

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