[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
.Michael Prestwick, The En- BI BLI OGRAPHI C ESSAY 491glish Medieval Army to 1485, in David Chandler, ed., The Oxford History of the BritishArmy (Oxford, 1996), 1 23, details the wages of the English forces and their equip-ment.Quentin Skinner s two-volume treatise The Foundations of Modern Political Thought(New York, 1978) is still the standard work on the subject.W.Gordon East, The Geography behind History, rev.ed.(New York, 1965), explainsgeographical advantages and disadvantages in history.David Landes, The Wealth andPoverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (New York, 1998), links geo-graphical advantages to invention and adventurousness.On Portugal in the age ofdiscovery, see Bailey W.Diffie and George D.Winius, Foundations of the Portuguese Em-pire, 1415 1580 (Minneapolis, 1977), and P.E.Russell, Portugal, Spain, and the AfricanAtlantic, 1343 1490 (Brookfield, Vt., 1995).On Spain, the single best book is J.H.El-liott, Imperial Spain, 1469 1716 (London, 1963).A classic overview of the European voyages of discovery is Samuel Eliot Morison,The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages A.D.1492 1616 (New York, 1972),and The Northern Voyages, A.D.500 1600 (New York, 1974).A readable account ofthe cartography of the age is John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers (New York, 1981).Alfred W.Crosby coined the term portmanteau biota and made it common cur-rency in Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 1900 (Cambridge,1986).Gwyn Jones, The History of the Vikings (New York, 1968), is good reading.On theend of the Reconquista, see Elliott, Imperial Spain.Robert S.Gottfried, The Black Death:Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (New York, 1983), follows the track ofthe plague.On the history of Africa in the age of European discovery see Basil Davidson, Africain History, rev.ed.(New York, 1991), the essays in Philip S.Curtin et al., African His-tory: From Earliest Times to Independence, rev.ed.(London, 1995), and Ronald Oliver, TheAfrican Experience (New York, 1991).Elizabeth Donnan, ed., Documents Illustrative of theHistory of the Slave Trade to America (Washington, D.C., 1930 35), 4 vols., is the sourceof the Brandoan quotation.chapter three.the spanish century, 1492 1588For more on Queen Isabel of Spain, see Peggy K.Liss, Isabel the Queen: Life and Times(New York, 1992).Columbus s life story is told in the two volumes of Samuel EliotMorison s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston, 1942).On theperils of piloting, see John R.Stilgoe, Alongshore (New Haven, Conn., 1994).For an account of the Taíno and their world, Irving Rouse, The Taínos: The Rise andDecline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (New Haven, Conn., 1992), is indispensable.On the warfare that reduced the Taíno to a fraction of their former numbers, see CarlOrtwin Sauer, The Early Spanish Main (Berkeley, Calif., 1966).The power of naming is 492 BI BLI OGRAPHI C ESSAYone subject in Jack D.Forbes, Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and theEvolution of Red-Black Peoples, 2nd ed.(Urbana, Ill., 1993).The standard work on the Spanish entradas is David J.Weber, The Spanish Frontierin North America (New Haven, Conn., 1992).Ian K.Steele, Warpaths: Invasions of NorthAmerica (New York, 1994), covers a broader subject.Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Inter-pretation (Cambridge, 1991), probes Moctezuma s thinking.Anthony Pagden, Euro-pean Encounters with the New World (New Haven, Conn., 1993), traces out the problemsthat Europeans had explaining (or explaining away) the novelty of the New World.Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, trans.Richard Howard(New York, 1984), re-reads the Spanish literature of conquest.Doña Isabel s story istold in Donald Chipman, Isabel Moctezuma: Pioneer of Mestizaje, in David G.Sweetand Gary B.Nash, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Berkeley, Calif., 1974),214 227.Charles Hudson traces de Soto s path in The Hernando De Soto Expedition, inHudson and Carmen Chavez Tesser, eds., The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeansin the American South, 1521 1704 (Athens, Ga., 1993), 74 103.David Ewing Duncan,Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas (New York, 1995), dramatizes de Soto sentrada.Douglas Preston, Cities of Gold: A Journey across the American Southwest in Pursuitof Coronado (New York, 1992), follows Coronado s trail.Slaving in the Southwest isthe subject of James F.Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community inthe Southwest Borderlands (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2002).On the Pueblo peoples sexuality and the missionaries, see Gutiérrez, When JesusCame.The missionaries systematic attack on the harlots of New Spain is revealedin Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez, Christian Morality Revealed in New Spain: The In-imical Nahua Woman in Book Ten of the Florentine Codex, Journal of Women s History10 (1998): 9 37.On the encomiendas, see Lewis Hanke, The Spanish Struggle for Justicein the Conquest of America (Boston, 1965).Charles Gibson, Spain in America (New York,1966), lays out the Spanish administrative system.Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies (Ithaca, N.Y., 1973), discusses the slavetrade and the Spanish economy.The literature on slavery and the European NewWorld venture is vast
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]