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New World Gold

Author : Elvira Vilches
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226856194
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book New World Gold written by Elvira Vilches and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spanish empire, but also it raised doubts and insecurities about the meaning and function of money, the ideals of court and civility, and the structure of commerce and credit. New World Gold shows that, far from being a stabilizing force, the flow of gold from the Americas created anxieties among Spaniards and shaped a host of distinct behaviors, cultural practices, and intellectual pursuits on both sides of the Atlantic. Elvira Vilches examines economic treatises, stories of travel and conquest, moralist writings, fiction, poetry, and drama to reveal that New World gold ultimately became a problematic source of power that destabilized Spain’s sense of trust, truth, and worth. These cultural anxieties, she argues, rendered the discovery of gold paradoxically disastrous for Spanish society. Combining economic thought, social history, and literary theory in trans-Atlantic contexts, New World Gold unveils the dark side of Spain’s Golden Age.

Cannibals' Gold

Author : Richard G. Tomkies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958155847
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Cannibals' Gold written by Richard G. Tomkies and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping story is set on the goldfields of North Queensland in the 1870s. Although fictional the story is woven around many actual events. It tells of two gold miners who contrive to amass a veritable fortune in gold by devising a unique but somewhat illegal method of recovery while attempting to evade cannibalistic natives and the long arm of the law. Romance intervenes when disaster strikes which frustrates the police waiting to make their arrests! Many of the events are graphically depicted in this non-politically correct book which has now become a best seller with dozens of favorable reviews from satisfied readers!

Cannibals and Big Game

Author : Channing Beebe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1571574514
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Cannibals and Big Game written by Channing Beebe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War I rages around the globe, Chan Beebe and his young bride, Elizabeth, take a steamer to Angola and trek the ancient slave trails there in search of coveted petroleum to fuel the Allies' war machine. They find a brutal continent, where death, cannibalism, and deadly fevers are commonplace. Like the hypnotic beat of a tribal drum, Beebe draws readers deep into the bush, where the expedition encounters deadly denizens, both animal and human. The land is a hunter's dream, with plentiful game, angry elephants, charging lions, terrifying hippo, enraged buffalo, and crocodile-infested waters. Beebe's elephant-hunting descriptions are especially riveting, and the number of hippos he shot to feed his caravan is staggering by modern standards. With Beebe's "devil gun," the team survives a bloody gunfight with a hostile king and his savage Quissama cannibals. Lured ever deeper into cannibal country by a mysterious pounding tom-tom, they stumble upon a macabre scene: Seated upon a massive throne is a dead Quissama king, his shriveled body smoked and blackened, a massive gold royal ring resting around his neck. After Beebe and his team steal the necklace in a daring raid, they flee along a midnight trail, only to cross from one cannibal country into another! Beebe's harrowing tale and multitudinous hunts capture all that was post-WW I Africa--from the magnificent beauty of the land and its creatures to the savage native cultures that have endured for millennia. Amazingly enough, Beebe's journal with the original photographs remained unpublished for more than eighty years, but now this intrepid explorer’s tale of courage and adventure is finally available!

Temperate Conquests

Author : David Read
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328729
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Temperate Conquests written by David Read and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book responds to the recent wave of work emphasizing Spenser's tenure in Ireland as defining his interest with English colonialism. Temperate Conquests contains much that will interest students and scholars of Edmund Spenser, Renaissance studies, and European colonialism."--BOOK JACKET.

Violent Depictions

Author : Sarah McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380892X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Violent Depictions written by Sarah McDonald and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anything and everything may come under the rubric of violence in a society that is by and large addicted to the images of violence that are an inescapable part of contemporary reality. In the wake of recent international events, many have come to accept the perpetration of violence as morally acceptable and a just enterprise towards peace. But what is violence? How do we identify something or somebody as violent? Is violence justifiable? If so, under what circumstances? Violent Depictions addresses these and other questions on the role and nature of violence in a range of different national and historical contexts. Violent Depictions is a reflection on the relationship between violence and representation and includes a number of thematic categories such as youth violence in films, violence against women in literary and cinematic texts, gendered representations of terrorism, the violence of colonial encounters and of the remembering of institutionalised violence.

Keeper of the Secrets: Pursuit of the Cannibals

Author : Davis L. Temple
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604948531
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Keeper of the Secrets: Pursuit of the Cannibals written by Davis L. Temple and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtney Wesley and her lover, Dr. Josh Ledbetter, are working as medical missionaries in the Congo when Ledbetter falls victim to a mysterious and violent disease. They return home, and medical specialists in America are initially stumped. Doctors are then shocked to discover Ledbetter suffers from a new form of a devastating disease previously known to afflict only the cannibalistic people of Papua New Guinea. In order to avoid a Federal Isolation Order, Ledbetter flees, and Courtney vows to heal her lover and save his life -- but is she already too late? His strange illness manifests itself in violent ways. Ledbetter's mind and body are both affected as he develops the unquenchable hunger for human flesh. He becomes a walking zombie, his murderous rampage infecting others with the disease from Dallas to the French Quarter of New Orleans. Courtney is on his tail, but so are the authorities who want him dead. Driven by concern, she returns to Africa with her father, where they set out to find a cure for Ledbetter's mysterious disease. There, she makes the acquaintance of a witchdoctor by the name of L'ombo. He is the keeper of ancient secrets and holds the key to healing Dr. Ledbetter. They must work together before the disease spreads further and America is infested with mindless cannibals.

Of Cannibals and Kings

Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037997
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Of Cannibals and Kings written by Neil L. Whitehead and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Translations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus's descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest"--Provided by publisher.

New Guinea Gold

Author : Edmond Demaitre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book New Guinea Gold written by Edmond Demaitre and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires

Author : Richard Sugg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415674174
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires written by Richard Sugg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, when kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribed, swallowed or wore human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin against epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. One thing we are rarely taught at school is this: James I refused corpse medicine; Charles II made his own corpse medicine; and Charles I was made into corpse medicine. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Medicinal cannibalism utilised the formidable weight of European science, publishing, trade networks and educated theory. For many, it was also an emphatically Christian phenomenon. And, whilst corpse medicine has sometimes been presented as a medieval therapy, it was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain. It survived well into the eighteenth century, and amongst the poor it lingered stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. This innovative book brings to life a little known and often disturbing part of human history.

Writing Sites

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472101900
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Writing Sites written by Jon Stratton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative analysis of the theories of Marx, Foucault, and Derrida

Mountains, Gold and Cannibals

Author : Mrs. Doris Regina Wilde Booth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Mountains, Gold and Cannibals written by Mrs. Doris Regina Wilde Booth and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cannibal Fictions

Author : Jeff Berglund
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299215934
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Cannibal Fictions written by Jeff Berglund and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects of fear and fascination, cannibals have long signified an elemental "otherness," an existence outside the bounds of normalcy. In the American imagination, the figure of the cannibal has evolved tellingly over time, as Jeff Berglund shows in this study encompassing a strikingly eclectic collection of cultural, literary, and cinematic texts. Cannibal Fictions brings together two discrete periods in U.S. history: the years between the Civil War and World War I, the high-water mark in America's imperial presence, and the post-Vietnam era, when the nation was beginning to seriously question its own global agenda. Berglund shows how P. T. Barnum, in a traveling exhibit featuring so-called "Fiji cannibals," served up an alien "other" for popular consumption, while Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Tarzan of the Apes series tapped into similar anxieties about the eruption of foreign elements into a homogeneous culture. Turning to the last decades of the twentieth century, Berglund considers how treatments of cannibalism variously perpetuated or subverted racist, sexist, and homophobic ideologies rooted in earlier times. Fannie Flagg's novel Fried Green Tomatoes invokes cannibalism to new effect, offering an explicit critique of racial, gender, and sexual politics (an element to a large extent suppressed in the movie adaptation). Recurring motifs in contemporary Native American writing suggest how Western expansion has, cannibalistically, laid the seeds of its own destruction. And James Dobson's recent efforts to link the pro-life agenda to allegations of cannibalism in China testify still further to the currency and pervasiveness of this powerful trope. By highlighting practices that preclude the many from becoming one, these representations of cannibalism, Berglund argues, call into question the comforting national narrative of e pluribus unum.

Into the Darkness

Author : Richard Hampton
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Into the Darkness written by Richard Hampton and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Darkness By: Richard Hampton Into the Darkness is a historical fiction that follows Hormud, a general in the Egyptian army who is left in charge of his country’s safety while the army of Egypt is in the far north with Rameses II. He is a true soldier’s soldier. Hormud and his army are to go upriver on the mighty Nile to rid Nubia of those who would take over the country and the highly valued mining district. Nubia is a conquered territory now under Egyptian control. Outnumbered and rushed for time, Hormud and his army must complete the mission by ending the rebellion and ensuring the mines will be safe from hostiles.

Cannibal Culture

Author : Deborah Root
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429970447
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Cannibal Culture written by Deborah Root and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the ways Western art and Western commerce co-opt, pigeonhole, and commodify so-called "native experiences." It raises important and uncomfortable questions about how we travel, what we buy, and how we determine cultural merit.

Cannibal Killers

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760774625
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Cannibal Killers written by Peter Haining and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery

Author : Michael Householder
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409428877
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery written by Michael Householder and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery analyzes the linguistic, rhetorical, and literary innovations that emerged out of the first encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Through analysis of six texts, Michael Householder demonstrates the role of language in forming the identities or characters that permitted Europeans (English speakers, primarily) to adapt to the unusual circumstances of encounter. Arranged chronologically, the texts examined include John Mandeville's Travels, Richard Eden's English-language translations of the accounts of Spanish and Portuguese discovery and conquest, George Best's account of Martin Frobisher's voyages to northern Canada, Ralph Lane's account of the abandonment of Roanoke, John Smith's writings about Virginia, and John Underhill's account of the Pequot War. Through his analysis, Householder reveals that English colonists did not share a universal, homogenous view of indigenous Americans as savages, but that the writers, confronted by unfamiliar peoples and situations, resorted to a mixed array of cultural beliefs, myths, and theories, to put together workable explanations of their experiences, which then became the basis for how Europeans in the colonies began transforming themselves into Americans. .

Cannibal Encounters

Author : Philip P. Boucher
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401649
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Cannibal Encounters written by Philip P. Boucher and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and analysis of European colonizers’ relationship with and literary depiction of the aborigines of the Lesser Antilles. Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers’ observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and administrative correspondence, Cannibal Encounters offers a vivid portrait of a troubled chapter in the history of European-Amerindian relations. Winner of the French Colonial Historical Society’s Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize “A strong contribution to our understanding of the interplay not only between France and Britain in the struggle for the Antilles but also between the colonizers and the indigenous people fighting to maintain their independence from both European powers.” —American Historical Review “Welcome evidence that historians are willing to rewrite the history of the colonial era in the Caribbean with a clearer eye to the part the indigenous population played.” —Peter Hulme, William and Mary Quarterly “Boucher’s research is thorough and his contribution to the historiography of the Caribbean and of colonialism is valuable.” —Ethan Casey, Magill Book Reviews “An intelligent, well-informed discussion of French and English contacts with Island Caribs in the West Indies from the pre-colonial era until the end of the Seven Years War.” —Kenneth Morgan, English Historical Review “A new and important contribution to the efforts of historians and anthropologists to understand the history of the Caribs.” —Jalil Sued-Badillo, Journal of American History “A lucid and terse examination of direct interactions between Island Caribs and Europeans in the Lesser Antilles, and the indirect influence of literary images of Island Caribs (and other Native Americans) on the emergence of Western philosophical traditions.” —William F. Keegan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History “No one has mined the French National Archives to this extent on this topic. Boucher renders valuable information accessible to English readers.” —Robert A. Myers, Alfred University