Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492 1640

Patricia Seed
Cambridge University Press
9780521497572
0-521-49757-4

Developing historical cultural contexts and tackling the implications for contemporary nation-states, this work explores the array of ceremonies that the Europeans (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese.

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and Dutch) performed to enact their taking possession of the New World.