European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia Before 1800

by MacLeod,Murdo J.

• ISBN13: 9780860785224
• ISBN10: 086078522X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

European intrusions had many impacts on invaded peoples, but less attention has often been paid to changes brought about by the encounter in everyday life and behaviour, both for the Europeans and the other cultures. What changed in diet, dress, agriculture, warfare and use of domesticated animals, for example ? To what degree were attitudes, and thus behaviours affected ? How did changes in the use of types of firearm reorder power structures, indeed lead to the rise and fall of competing local states ? Even the design and planning of houses and cities were affected. This volume looks at such changes in the early centuries of European expansion.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii-ix
General Editor's Preface	xi-xiii
Introduction	xv-xxvi
EURROPEAN IMPACT IN AMEICA AND AFRICA
The Social and Economic Stability of the Western Sudan in the Middle Ages	1	(14)
M. Malowist
The Horse in Fifteenth-Century Senegambia	15	(26)
Ivana Elbl
Passive Resistanc: Hopi Responses to Spanish Contact and Conquest	41	(16)
E. Charles Adams
Social Climbers: Changing Patterns of Mobility Among the Indians of Colonial Peru	57	(20)
Karen Spalding
Indian Agriculture, Changing Subsistence Patterns, and the Environment on the Southern Great Plains	77	(10)
Paul H. Carlson
The Process of Farming Diffusion in the Southwest and Great Basin	87	(10)
Joseph C. Winter
La Traite Atlantique des Esclaves et ses Effects Economiques et Sociaux en Afrique: Le Cas du Galam, Royaume de l'Hinterland Senegambien au Dix-Huitieme Siecle	97	(26)
Abdoulaye Bathily
Dahomey and the Slave Trade: Reflections on the Historiography of the Rise of Dahomey	123	(32)
Robin Law
Forms and Types of Work, and the Acculturation of the Colonial Indian of Mesoamerica: Some Preliminary Observations	155	(18)
Murdo J. MacLeod
L'Acculturation des Espagnols dans le Mexique colonial: decheance ou dynamisme culturel?	173	(16)
Solange Alberro
EUROPEAN IMPACT IN ASIA
Cloths, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century	189	(52)
Bernard S. Cohn
The Coming of the Europeans	241	(42)
K.T. Achaya
Bounty from the New World
K.T. Achaya	259	(24)
The Introduction of Ameican Food Plants into China	283	(12)
Ping-ti Ho
From Betel-Chewing to Tobacco-Smoking in Indonesia	295	(20)
Anthony Reid
Opium Smoking in Ch'ing China	315	(32)
Jonathan Spence
The Structure of Cities in Southeast Asia, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries	347	(16)
Anthony Reid
Female Roles in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia	363	(18)
Anthony Reid
Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India	381	(38)
Lata Mani
Index	419