Colonial Encounters

By Peter Hulme,

Book cover of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797

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Europe encountered America in 1492, a meeting of cultures graphically described in the log-book kept by Christopher Columbus. His stories of peaceful savages and cruel "cannibals" have formed the matrix for all subsequent descriptions of that native Caribbean society. The encounter itself has obsesssed colonialist writing. It reappears in the…

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1 author picked Colonial Encounters as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A brilliant and incisive reading of European-Caribbean relations from the first encounters on Christopher Columbus’s voyages.

Peter Hulme shows how central the Caribbean was to English and European thinking about the world and how the region defined English approaches to the rest of the world in the first age of the British Empire.

From Andrew's list on early English travel writing.

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