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| Tango01 | 27 Jan 2017 12:57 p.m. PST |
…Politics of Empire "Myths of the Spanish conquest prove surprisingly durable, and Matthew Restall's aptly titled Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest is one of the best places to begin debunking. By highlighting the importance of indigenous allies both during and throughout colonization, Restall points the way to a different kind of history, of contingent outcome rather than inevitability. This debunking work is enormously important. After tackling why European polities acquired the ability to launch overseas adventures–see Geography, States, Empires–the colonization of the Caribbean and the Americas is a most critical episode in how the world becomes global and modern. It is where western Europe emerges as The West, deploying what Michel-Rolph Trouillot describes as a geography of management and geography of imagination…"
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GamesPoet  | 27 Jan 2017 8:24 p.m. PST |
An interesting read, thank you for posting! |
| Sobieski | 28 Jan 2017 4:37 a.m. PST |
How many times can the same issue be led out to keep hack authors in business? |
| Tango01 | 28 Jan 2017 11:28 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Have you read about Napoleon and WW2?… (smile)
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