Cannibal Encounters

Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763

Philip P. Boucher

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2009
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781421401645
• Subtopic: French History
• Index: History

Winner of the French Colonial Historical Society's Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize

Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Preface
• Introduction
• One First Impressions: Europeans and Island Caribs in the Precolonial Era, 1492–1623
• Two Realpolitik Caribbean Style: Euro-Carib Relations during the European Invasion, 1623–1660
• Three Between Lion and Rooster: The Island Carib Struggle for Autonomy, 1660–1688
• Four “As if no such people existed”: Island Caribs in Decline, 1689–1763
• Five Age of Iron to Age of Sentimentality: Island Caribs in the European Literary Imagination, 1660s–1760s
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index