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“serge gruzinski”

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  • The Eagle and the Dragon

    Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century

    by Serge Gruzinski ...
    In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese based in Malacca dreamed of colonizing China. The Aztec Eagle ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Language of the Conquerors

    When Amerindians Spoke Latin in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

    by Serge Gruzinski ...
    Translated by Nancy Erber ...
    One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, paper and books arrived in the Americas with the conquistadors and they were used as weapons by the Spanish to subjugate local populations and impose Christianity on them.The written word of the ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Images at War

    Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)

    by Serge Gruzinski, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Translated by Heather MacLean ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    “If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, hisstriking reinterpretation of the Spanish colonization of Mexico.Concentrating on the political meaning of the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Mestizo Mind

    The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

    by Serge Gruzinski ...
    Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a personof mixed European and American Indianancestry.Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; ... Read more

    Was $45.99 USD Now $39.99 USD

  • The Conquest of Mexico

    Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century

    by Serge Gruzinski ...
    The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the Indian's memory, changes in their perception of reality, the spread of the European idea of the supernatural and the Spanish colonists' ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

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  • The Acadian Diaspora:An Eighteenth-Century History

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    Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced ... Read more

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