The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People who Greeted ColumbusTells the story of the Taino people from their ancestral days in South America through their migration to the northern Caribbean islands where they were the first natives to interact with Columbus, to their rapid and immediate decline under the European gifts of forced labor, malnutrition, disease, and dispersal. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. |
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User Review - Isabelmore - LibraryThingGreat book by an anthropologist. This book tells the story of the Tainos and how they decline after been in contact with the Spanish explorers. Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictAlthough Columbus's diaries contain almost all firsthand information about the Tainos, who became extinct as a result of European colonization, the author has managed to piece together a robust ... Read full review
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People who Greeted Columbus |
| Author | Irving Rouse |
| Contributor | Yale University |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0300051816, 9780300051810 |
| Length | 211 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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