Surviving Spanish Conquest – Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation …

Surviving Spanish ConquestIndian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico\nAuthor(s): Karen F. Anderson-Crdova\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817360580, 978-0817360580\nSynopsis\nReveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550\n\n In Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, Karen F. Anderson-Crdova draws on archaeological, historical, and ethnohistorical sources to elucidate the impacts of sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and colonization on indigenous peoples in the Greater Antilles. Moving beyond the conventional narratives of the quick demise of the native populations because of forced labor and the spread of Old World diseases, this book shows the complexity of the initial exchange between.