{"product_id":"on-savage-shores-how-indigenous-americans-discovered-europe","title":"On Savage Shores : How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is the story of Indigenous Americans abroad; a story of abduction, loss, cultural appropriation, and, as they saw it, of apocalypse \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– a story that has largely been absent from our collective imagination of the times. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe 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 and others \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– the reverse was true: they discovered Europe. For them, Europe comprised savage shores, a land of riches and marvels, yet perplexing for its brutal disparities of wealth and quality of life, and its baffling beliefs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the Brazilian king who met Henry VIII, to the Aztecs who mocked up human sacrifice at the court of Charles V, to the many servants employed by Europeans of every rank: here are a people who were rendered exotic, demeaned, and marginalised, but whose world-views and cultures had a profound impact on European civilisation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on their surviving literature and poetry and subtly layering European eyewitness accounts against the grain, Pennock gives us a sweeping account of the Indigenous American presence in, and impact on, early modern Europe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Dodds Pennock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43744799555841,"sku":"9781474616928","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-541.png?v=1705246409","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/on-savage-shores-how-indigenous-americans-discovered-europe","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}