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Author : Enrique de Gandía
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historia crítica de los mitos y leyendas de la conquista americana written by Enrique de Gandía and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enrique de Gandía
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Historia Crítica de Los Mitos de la Conquista Americana ... written by Enrique de Gandía and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enrique de Gandía (historien).)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Historia crítica de los mitos de la conquista americana written by Enrique de Gandía (historien).) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enrique de Gandía
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Historia crítica de los mitos y leyendas de la conquista de América written by Enrique de Gandía and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788449316388
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Los siete mitos de la conquista española written by Matthew Restall and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este libro se explora cómo surgieron y pasaron al acervo popular los errores de interpretación acerca de la historia de la conquista española de América. Se ofrece, asimismo, una nueva crónica de las actividades de los conquistadores y exploradores más célebres, entre los que se cuentan Colón, Cortés y Pizarro. A partir de una amplia selección de fuentes, el historiador Matthew Restall destaca siete mitos esenciales, en los cuales revela el origen de las inexactitudes y refuta las falacias implícitas. Este texto atractivo y bien documentado muestra, por ejemplo, que los indígenas americanos no confundían a los conquistadores con dioses, y que no es cierta la idea de que unos pocos españoles conquistaron grandes imperios con extraordinaria rapidez, enfrentándose a un enemigo numéricamente muy superior. Descubrimos, asimismo, que Colón era considerado en su tiempo —y durante varias décadas después— como un navegante en absoluto extraordinario que participó en las campañas donde intervinieron también muchos otros europeos meridionales, una idea que coincide con los hechos históricos. Fue mucho después cuando se caracterizó a Colón como un gran hombre que se enfrentó a la ignorancia de sus contemporáneos para descubrir el nuevo mundo. Restall muestra también que la conquista española dependía en gran medida de los aliados negros e indígenas, que proporcionaban muchos miles de combatientes, cifras que superaban con mucho el contingente de conquistadores españoles. Este libro nos enseña, así, que la conquista fue mucho más compleja —y más fascinante—de lo que la describen las historias convencionales.
Author : Irving Albert Leonard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079908
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Books of the Brave written by Irving Albert Leonard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences. For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information that is sure to spark future study, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction signals the lasting value of Books of the Brave and brings the reader up to date on developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World. Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences. For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information that is sure to spark future study, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction signals the lasting value of Books of the Brave and brings the reader up to date on developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World.
Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195131509
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism written by John Carlos Rowe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.
Author : René Jara
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816620113
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book 1492-1992 written by René Jara and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1492–1992 was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The essays and documents in this volume underscore the importance of writing as companion of Empire, while at the same time highlighting its subversive power as a series of counter-narratives emerge to contest the tactics and values of the "victors." Contributors: Rolena Adorno, Tom Conley, Antonio Gomez-Moriana, Beatriz Gonzalez, Rene Jara, Stephanie Merrim, Walter Mignolo, Beatriz Pastor, Jose Rabasa, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Iris Zavala.
Author : Jorge Magasich-Airola
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843312921
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book America Magica (2nd edition) written by Jorge Magasich-Airola and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day. The authors invoke the unique exhilaration of exploration, investigating the conflict between the ambitious idealism and harsh realities that have always characterized and torn the country. After all, did people not go to America in search of both the Garden of Eden and the tribes of the damned?
Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520226410
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Entangled Edens written by Candace Slater and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The skill with which [Slater] combines various levels and modalities of narrative, utilizing her personal experience as a colorful unifying thread, is truly remarkable."—Antonio Candido, author of Antonio Candido: On Literature and Society (Howard S. Becker, editor) "A very important book, that quite gracefully, elegantly, and persuasively moves beyond the usual 'myth and history' format to put at its center stories about the Amazon and the people who tell them. Entangled Edens persuasively argues that the Amazon can only be grasped, understood, and come to terms with through its myths and stories. It addresses a very real failing of modern environmentalism, which for all its virtues, tends to dehumanize and metaphorically depopulate, when it does not villainize, populations that do share its concerns or share them in very different ways. Instead of forcing us to choose between land and people, Slater uses the stories and the people who tell them to rethink human relations with nature and each other."—Richard White, author of The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River "Elegant, erudite, profoundly serious, Entangled Edens is a source of inspiration and knowledge for the reader interested in the Amazon. Without the cultural tradition and the life experience of Amazonia’s people, any analysis of the Amazon risks becoming inconsequential or opportunistic. This is one of the powerful messages of this important reflection on the Amazon, whose greatest riches are ultimately its people. Candace Slater has written a book that will last."—Milton Hatoum, author of The Tree of the Seventh Heaven(1994) and The Brothers (2002)
Author : Ismael Vaccaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491725
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Environmental Social Sciences written by Ismael Vaccaro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this 2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and environmental examples, ranging from Australia to Amazonia, from Madagascar to the United States, and from prehistoric and historic cases to contemporary rural and urban ones. It deals with climate change, deforestation, environmental knowledge, natural reserves, politics and ownership of natural resources, and the effect of differing spatial and temporal scales. Contributing to the intellectual project of interdisciplinary environmental social science, this book shows the possibilities social science can provide to environmental studies and to larger global problems and thus will be of equal interest to social and natural scientists and policy makers.
Author : Beatriz Pastor Bodmer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724708
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Armature of Conquest written by Beatriz Pastor Bodmer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on certain key first-hand narratives of the discovery, exploration and conquest of the New World, the author views various journals, letters and other documents not merely as narratives of facts and events, but as literary expressions of the dynamics of the writer's experience. Bodmer uses early Spanish chronicles to take the reader on a journey of exploration into the ideology of conquest and how it fared in the face of New World realities. What emerges is a detailed analytical history of the gradual awakening of a critical consciousness concerning accepted versions of the discovery and conquest of America.
Author : Fernando Operé
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925875
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Indian Captivity in Spanish America written by Fernando Operé and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, the practice of taking captives was widespread among Native Americans. Indians took captives for many reasons: to replace--by adoption--tribal members who had been lost in battle, to use as barter for needed material goods, to use as slaves, or to use for reproductive purposes. From the legendary story of John Smith's captivity in the Virginia Colony to the wildly successful narratives of New England colonists taken captive by local Indians, the genre of the captivity narrative is well known among historians and students of early American literature. Not so for Hispanic America. Fernando Operé redresses this oversight, offering the first comprehensive historical and literary account of Indian captivity in Spanish-controlled territory from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Originally published in Spanish in 2001 as Historias de la frontera: El cautiverio en la América hispánica, this newly translated work reveals key insights into Native American culture in the New World's most remote regions. From the "happy captivity" of the Spanish military captain Francisco Nuñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, who in 1628 spent six congenial months with the Araucanian Indians on the Chilean frontier, to the harrowing nineteenth-century adventures of foreigners taken captive in the Argentine Pampas and Patagonia; from the declaraciones of the many captives rescued in the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the riveting story of Helena Valero, who spent twenty-four years among the Yanomamö in Venezuela during the mid-twentieth century, Operé's vibrant history spans the entire gamut of Spain's far-flung frontiers. Eventually focusing on the role of captivity in Latin American literature, Operé convincingly shows how the captivity genre evolved over time, first to promote territorial expansion and deny intercultural connections during the colonial era, and later to romanticize the frontier in the service of nationalism after independence. This important book is thus multidisciplinary in its concept, providing ethnographic, historical, and literary insights into the lives and customs of Native Americans and their captives in the New World.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004366296
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World is a collection of fourteen articles focusing on debates concerning the nature of “rites” raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The controversy started in Jesuit Asian missions where the method of accommodation, based on translation of Christianity into Asian cultural idioms, created a distinction between civic and religious customs. Civic customs were defined as those that could be included into Christianity and permitted to the new converts. However, there was no universal consensus among the various actors in these controversies as to how to establish criteria for distinguishing civility from religion. The controversy had not been resolved, but opened the way to radical religious scepticism. Contributors are: Claudia Brosseder, Michela Catto, Gita Dharampal-Frick, Pierre Antoine Fabre, Ana Carolina Hosne, Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Giuseppe Marcocci, Ovidiu Olar, Sabina Pavone, István Perczel, Nicholas Standaert, Margherita Trento, Guillermo Wilde and Ines G. Županov.
Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135899096
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Science and Empire in the Atlantic World written by James Delbourgo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.
Author : Frank Graziano
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195124324
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Millennial New World written by Frank Graziano and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of millennialism - the idea that something climactic will happen in the year 2000 - in Latin America, from the pre-Columbian period up to the present.
Author : Edward Julius Goodman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806124209
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (242 download)
Download or read book The Explorers of South America written by Edward Julius Goodman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging research and lifelong interest in exploration into a comprehensive, scholarly history. A reprint of the original 1972 edition, the tales have lost none of their luster.
