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 ...
This work of comparative history explores the array of ceremonies that the English, the Spanish, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch performed to enact their taking possession of the New World. The book develops the historic cultural c...
This chronicle of the Spanish conquest of Peru was written by the 16th-century Spanish conquistador and historian Pedro de Cieza de Leon. While definitely a loyalist, he records the suffering and, most importantly, the resistance, of the In...
An account of the toll of frontier conquest on the Amazon describes how the manufacture of iron and rubber, the dumping of mercury, and the mining of gold has affected settlers, Indians, foresters, and wildlife in the region.
Stannard says that 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. Moreover, the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ide...
This chronicle of the Spanish conquest of Peru was written by the 16th-century Spanish conquistador and historian Pedro de Cieza de Leon. While definitely a loyalist, he records the suffering and, most importantly, the resistance, of the In...
