Caroline Dodds Pennock

Author

Caroline Dodds Pennock is a British historian and author who specialises in the history of the Aztecs and the Americas before and during European colonisation. She is a Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield and has won awards for her teaching and public engagement with history. On Savage Shores tells... the overlooked story of the Indigenous people of the Americas who travelled to Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries — as diplomats, performers, enslaved people and free travellers — long before European colonisation was complete. The book reverses the traditional narrative of "discovery" by showing that the encounter between the Old World and the New was far more complex and reciprocal than conventional histories suggest. Available as both a book and an audiobook, On Savage Shores offers revelatory listening and reading for history enthusiasts who want to understand the encounter between Europe and the Americas from a perspective that centres the Indigenous people who crossed the Atlantic in both directions. Read more Show less