On Savage Shores How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe Caroline Dodds Pennock by Caroline Dodds Pennock instant download after payment.

We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit & others—enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders—the reverse was true: they discovered Europe.
For them, Europe comprised savage shores, a land of riches & marvels, yet perplexing for its brutal disparities of wealth & quality of life, & its baffling beliefs. The story of these Indigenous Americans abroad is a story of abduction, loss, cultural appropriation, and, as they saw it, of apocalypse—a story that has largely been absent from our collective imagination of the times.

From the Brazilian king who met Henry VIII to the Aztecs who mocked up human sacrifice at the court of Charles V; from the Inuk baby who was put on show in a London pub to the mestizo children of Spaniards who returned “home” with their fathers; from the Inuit who harpooned ducks on the Avon river to the many servants employed by Europeans of every rank: here are a people who were rendered exotic, demeaned, & marginalized, but whose worldviews & cultures had a profound impact on European civilization.

Drawing on their surviving literature & poetry & subtly layering European eyewitness accounts against the grain, Pennock gives us a sweeping account of the Indigenous American presence in, & impact on, early modern Europe.

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CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK is one of the world’s leading authorities on the Aztecs. Her study of Aztec human sacrifice, Bonds of Blood, won the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize in 2008.