On the Trail of the Arawaks
Author : Fred Olsen
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1974-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780806115030
Author : Fred Olsen
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1974-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780806115030
Author : Fred Olsen
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Arawak Indians Antiquities
ISBN :
Author : Desmond V. Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : William Curtis Farabee
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Arawak Indians
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Albion Ober
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN :
Author : William Curtis Farabee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108006248
A vivid portrait of a threatened culture, by the first ethnologist to document indigenous tribes in the northern Amazon basin.
Author : David E. Stannard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 1993-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0199838984
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.
Author : Higman, B.W.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 1905-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231033603
This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbcan as a whole.
Author : Tracey Skelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317859006
With its diverse histories of slavery, plantations, colonialism and independence, the Caribbean is richly layered, highly complex and a wonderful example of people's resistance. The pan-Caribbean region also provides an excellent geography through which to understand and analyse the complex processes of globalisation, development, migration, tourism, and social and cultural relations. While the sea, sun and sand representation is a true one -some of the most beautiful places on earth are found in the Caribbean - the pan-Caribbean is much more intricate and fascinating than that. Where else in the world do French, Spanish, Dutch and English-speaking worlds co-exist alongside indigenous peoples and cultures? Where else have cultures of carnival, music and dance become so integrated into national and regional identities? The Caribbean is a crucible of diversity and semblance and a space that is both contradictory and harmonious. Introduction to the Pan-Caribbean has been written by people who are either from the region or have spent much of their working lives there. It is an excellent introduction and is your map through one of the most extraordinary and remarkable parts of the world.
Author : Donald James Riddell Walker
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Over de eerste Amerikanen en het Caribisch gebied.