Review of David J. Weber, Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment

(New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 2005. xviii [H11001] 466 pp. $35 cloth, $20 paper) David J. Weber resets the playing fi eld for the comparative study of late eighteenth-century American frontiers. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through t...

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Published in:Pacific Historical Review 2007-02, Vol.76 (1), p.95-97
Main Author: CUELLO, JOSé
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age of Enlightenment
Historical text analysis
Language history
Spanish language
Speech acts
War
Warfare
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Summary:(New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 2005. xviii [H11001] 466 pp. $35 cloth, $20 paper) David J. Weber resets the playing fi eld for the comparative study of late eighteenth-century American frontiers. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Presss Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpress.edu/ journals/rights.htm. 95 Pacifi c Historical Review 96 Spanish imperial policymakers invented new indios brbaros who were rational human beings, even heroic in their resistance to Spanish aggression. Ethnogenesisthe rise of new Native groups with new identities became a widespread phenomenon as a consequence of war, disease, and other forms of contact.
ISSN:0030-8684
1533-8584
DOI:10.1525/phr.2007.76.1.95