 | Establishing Exceptionalism: Historiography and the Colonial Americas Subjects: Humanities; History; American History; World/ International History; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Modern History 1750-1945; Imperial & Colonial History; Latin American History; Since the 1950s historians of the colonial era in North, South and Central America have extended the frontiers of basic general knowledge enormously; this rich historiographical tradition has generated robust methodological discussions about how to study the European encounter in the light of the experience of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. By bringing together major research reviews by a series of leading scholars, this volume makes it possible to compare directly approaches relating to colonial North America, Brazil, the Spanish borderlands, and the Caribbean. Amy Turner Bushnell, College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
