Insatiable Hunger: Colonial Encounters in Context

An exploration of the worldviews that underpinned settler colonialism.

The sixteenth—century European wars of religion set the stage for mass migration to the New World. Of course, there was nothing new about the New World to Indigenous peoples who had lived there for millennia. Insatiable Hunger compares European historical accounts and Indigenous stories of contact to illustrate the wide cultural chasm that separated the two civilizations. Joseph Graham tells a story of religiously obses...