This work looks at historiographical approaches to the encounters between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It uses a range of research reviews to compare directly approaches relating to colonial North America, Brazil, the Spanish borderlands and the Caribbean. '...Amy Turner Bushnell has compiled a well-organised and useful set of important contributions to the historiography of the colonial period in New World history.' Hispanic American Historical Review 'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1