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Author : Christopher Columbus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500050620
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade written by Brian M. Fagan and published by New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at pre-Columbian America provides a chronological history of ancient American civilizations, detailing the artistic, scientific, and cultural accomplishments of the Inca, Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Chavin, Zapotec, and other ancient peoples.
Author : Ralph C. Altman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780938644163
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Gold Before Columbus written by Ralph C. Altman and published by . This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Musée de la civilisation (Québec)
Publisher : Les Editions Du Septentrion
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Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Gold in the Americas written by Musée de la civilisation (Québec) and published by Les Editions Du Septentrion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the passionate world of gold in the Americas, from the moment Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors fell under its spell and ventured forth to discover, colonize, and exploit the New World and its resources, right up to the present day and recent explorations for gold deposits in northern Quebec. Gold's natural properties are every bit as surprising as the powers attributed to the mineral, which is why gold could engender the brutal but extraordinarily productive encounter of the peoples who built the Americas of today. The Indians, Africans, Europeans, and MÉtis all contributed - through the alchemy of time and passion - to forging the face of the nations and the landscapes of the vast territory of the Americas. From pre-Hispanic treasures to technological marvels of the twenty-first century, the ways in which gold has been used are as limitless as the human imagination. Let yourself succumb to gold fever and discover the Americas as you have never before seen them.
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Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book GOLD BEFORE COLUMBUS written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Quilter
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022947
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia written by Jeffrey Quilter and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lands between Mesoamerica and the Central Andes are famed for the rich diversity of ancient cultures that inhabited them. Throughout this vast region, from about AD 700 until the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion, a rich and varied tradition of goldworking was practiced. The amount of gold produced and worn by native inhabitants was so great that Columbus dubbed the last New World shores he sailed as Costa Rica—the "Rich Coast." Despite the long-recognized importance of the region in its contribution to Pre-Columbian culture, very few books are readily available, especially in English, on these lands of gold. Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia now fills that gap with eleven articles by leading scholars in the field. Issues of culture change, the nature of chiefdom societies, long-distance trade and transport, ideologies of value, and the technologies of goldworking are covered in these essays as are the role of metals as expressions and materializations of spiritual, political, and economic power. These topics are accompanied by new information on the role of stone statuary and lapidary work, craft and trade specialization, and many more topics, including a reevaluation of the concept of the "Intermediate Area." Collectively, the volume provides a new perspective on the prehistory of these lands and includes articles by Latin American scholars whose writings have rarely been published in English.
Author : Mark Raymond Harrington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cuba Before Columbus written by Mark Raymond Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gold Before Columbus written by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416949003
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Before Columbus written by Charles C. Mann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.
Author : Christopher Columbus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Los Angeles County Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gold Before Columbus written by Los Angeles County Museum and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Los Angeles County Museum
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Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gold Before Columbus written by Los Angeles County Museum and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented by the Los Angeles County Museum in association with the Science and History Alliance of the Los Angeles County Museum and the Center of Latin American Studies of the University of California at Los Angeles, March 19-May 15, 1965.
Author : Brian M. Fagan
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Kingdoms of Gold Kingdoms of Jade written by Brian M. Fagan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elvira Vilches
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226856194
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
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.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060528423
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)
Download or read book A People's History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author : Los Angeles County Museum
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Gold before Columbus written by Los Angeles County Museum and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065483
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Golden Kingdoms written by Joanne Pillsbury and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
