Author : Mary Noel Menezes
Publisher :
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : 9781907493263
Author : Mary Noel Menezes
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Mary Noel Menezes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1317827503
These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
Author : Peter Rivière
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780904180886
This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Robert Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. It covers the journeys made by Schomburgk when surveying and establishing the boundaries of British Guiana, now Guyana, between 1841 and 1843.
Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1504028945
When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman’s work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions. The Prices’ acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman’s horror at the Dutch planters’ use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that “in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar.” Freed from its original publisher’s censorship, Stedman’s Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Author : Peter Rivière
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1351814222
This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. After his explorations in Guiana between 1835 and 1839 on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, which are the subject of Volume I of The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844, Robert Schomburgk travelled to London. He was appointed Her Majesty's Commissioner for Boundaries with the duty to survey the boundaries of British Guiana, hitherto undefined. His surveys between 1841 and 1843 consisted of three journeys. The first took him to the mouth of the Orinoco River, from where he traced the boundary south-westward to the Cuyuni River, before returning to Georgetown. The second journey involved the survey of the boundary with Brazil: first, south to the sources of the Takutu River; and then north to Mount Roraima. In the third he covered the boundary with Dutch Guiana (modern Surinam), which involved an arduous trip down the length of the Corentyne River. Schomburgk returned to London in 1844 and was knighted for his services. Volume II of The Guiana Travels contains his reports of these journeys. In abbreviated form they appeared in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Here they are published in full, including the material censored by the Colonial Office, which mainly details abuses of the native population committed by Venezuelans and Brazilians. In an 'Epilogue' an account is provided of his later career. The volume also includes two appendices: a summary of the boundary disputes which arose as a result of Schomburgk's survey and a vocabulary of vernacular plant names.
Author : Anton Allahar
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739108932
The result is a comparative study that is unique in its scope and also in its level of scholarly reflection. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in advancing their analysis of political, economic, social, and cultural thought in the Caribbean."--Jacket.
Author : Ezra Rashkow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2023-01-16
Category :
ISBN : 0192868527
This book is a study of the concepts of endangerment and extinction. Examining interlinking discourses of biological and cultural diversity loss in western and central India, it problematizes the long history of human endangerment and extinction discourse.
Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1421412691
The famed account of 18th-century slavery in South America, “made more readable by moderate editorial changes . . . A well-accomplished abridgment” (Colonial Latin American Historical Review). This abridgment of Richard and Sally Price’s acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on John Gabriel Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Author : Charlotte Rogers
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813942675
What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South America during the colonial period inaugurated the "promise of El Dorado"—the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that characterize the region today. Mourning El Dorado looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics. While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the fiction of five writers—Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum—criticizes extractive practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of wealth and happiness.
