Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Fatalidade historica da ilha de Ceilão Fatalidade historica da ilha de Ceilão João Ribeiro xvi, 266 p. ; 19 cm OL1041040W
Modern Inquisitions Modern Inquisitions Irene Silverblatt Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bu… OL2529938W
Edge of Empire Edge of Empire Maya Jasanoff Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest – but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultur… OL264991W
Colonial Latin America Colonial Latin America Lyman L. Johnson,Mark A. Burkholder "Textbook intended for college survey courses incorporates recent scholarship of much value for more advanced students. Uses standard political and economic approach enhanced by sharply focused secti… OL2686109W
Francisco Pizarro and his brothers Francisco Pizarro and his brothers Rafael Varón Gabai "Based on author's doctoral dissertation, work reconstructs and analyzes the making of the financial empire of the conquerer of Peru and his brothers. Painstaking study examines and elucidates multip… OL2835966W
Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man Michael T. Taussig Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . … OL33626W
Colonialism and development Colonialism and development Michael Ashley Havinden This is a study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies between 1850 and 1960. These colonies stretched right round the world from the West Indies, through West, C… OL4312838W
Religion in the British Atlantic, 1500-1800 Religion in the British Atlantic, 1500-1800 Carla Gardina Pestana Beginning with the role religion played in the lives of believers in West Africa, eastern North America, and western Europe in about 1500, author Carla Gardina Pestana shows how the Protestant Reform… OL4461084W
Nations Out of Empires Nations Out of Empires Harry G. Gelber "Harry Gelber examines centuries of colonial interaction and argues there is a close link between revolution in eighteenth-century Europe and the development of Asian nationalisms from the nineteenth… OL8400185W
Rereading the Conquest Rereading the Conquest James Krippner-Martnez "Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martinez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish co… OL9368371W