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The early Spanish Main

Authors:Carl Ortwin Sauer (Author), James H. Sutton Jr and Sylvia Leal Carvajal Collection

Summary:Describes the stages of Spain's brutal conquest and administration of the New World, from 1492 to 1519, emphasizing its dislocation of advanced native cultures

Print Book, English, 1966

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1966

Genre:History

Physical Description:xii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:485687

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Early Spanish Main.

Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975.

Contents:

Introduction

The discovery

Aboriginal condition of the islands

Española under Columbus

Change of government license to discover (1499-1502)

Veragua, last venture of Columbus (1502-1504)

Organization of the Indies (1502-1509)

Attempts to occupy Tierra Firme (1504-1509)

Expansion from Española (1509-1519)

Island crisis and its effects (1509-1519)

Entry to Darién and the South Sea (1511-1514)

Cuevan country and people

Castilla del Oro (1514-1519)

Indian lands of father Castilla del Oro

Establishment on the South Sea

Native decline and ecologic change in Castilla del Oro

The end of the era