German Conquistadors in Venezuela

List of Figures


Introduction


PART I. The Welsers: A History of their Merchant and Racialized Capitalism


1. The Merchant Capitalism of the Welsers: Colonization, Commerce, Commodities, and Imperial Credit


2. The Welsers' Racialized Merchant Capitalism in Venezuela: Early Modern Slavery


PART II. Narrative and Cartographic Representations of the Welsers in Venezuela (16th-18th centuries)


3. Nikolaus Federmann's Indianische Historia: Failed Gifts and Translation as Strategies of the Welser Conquest of Venezuela


4. Blood and Soil:Welser Venezuela Between Cartography and Genealogy


5. "Foreign Governance:" The Welser Colony Remembered in Latin-American Colonial Literature (16th-18th Centuries)


PART III. Cultural Memory of the Welser Colony in Germany and Latin America (19th-21st Centuries)


6. The Ghost of Welser Venezuela in German Cultural Memory


7. The Venezuelan View of German Conquest: Post-Independence Literature and History


Conclusion


Epilogue: Restitution and Commemoration-Debates in Germany Today


Works Cited

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• Política e governo
• Escravidão e abolição da escravatura
• História das Américas
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• História da Europa

colonialism; Latin America; South America; Spanish Index slave trade; sixteenth century; merchant; Hispaniola; early modern slave trade; indigenous resistance; memorialization; Nikolaus Federmann; genealogy; German bankers; Kolonie der Welser