Tag: Alida C. Metcalf

  • Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas Ashgate Publishing July 2007 218 pages 219 x 153 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-5189-5 Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Associate Professor of History Concordia University, Montreal, Canada When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded…

  • Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 University of Texas Press 2005 6 x 9 in. 391 pp., 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables ISBN: 978-0-292-71276-8 Alida C. Metcalf, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History Rice University, Houston, Texas Doña Marina (La Malinche) …Pocahontas …Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged…