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The Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rival in Darien, 1640-1750
revised edition
August, 2005
Cloth, 363 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13874-1
$53.50
The European powers were forced to make the Kuna people of present-day Panama and Columbia an integral part of their calculus of empire. Yet the Kunas created new forms of leadership out of foreign contacts, enabling their own survival.