ISBN10: 1571812105, ISBN13: 9781571812100, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Although the various essays focus on different sets of issues and perspectives, the unifying theme of linguistic or communicative interaction ties them together in complementary ways . The editors and authors . have done an excellent job of avoiding esoteric methodologies . This is a very acceptable interdisciplinary book that will be essential for anyone interested in European and indigenous contacts in the colonial period.' H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm) 'This collection is a very welcome addition to scholarship on Native-European encounters in the New World . Both the broad coverage and the interdisciplinary approaches . will offer future scholars of colonial situations conceptual tools . a strong and accessible collection that will lead scholars of diverse subfields in very profitable common directions.' Indigenous Nations Studies '[A] fascinating volume [and] valuable reference for future work.' American Studies International When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become ...
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