Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous PeoplesGrove Press, 2001 - 416 من الصفحات The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this day. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is an essential book for understanding the true impact of imperialism. Beautifully and passionately written, it provides a judicious and exhaustively researched indictment of European exploitation. Focusing on four collisions between Europeans and indigenous cultures--the conquest of Mexico, the British onslaught on the Tasmanian Aborigines, the uprooting of the Apaches, and the German campaign against the tribes of Southwest Africa--Mark Cocker illuminates the fundamental experiences that underlay the colonial experience around the globe. Beyond making a persuasive--and balanced--case against colonialism, Cocker also sustains a riveting, often harrowing story. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is narrative history in its most impressive form--engaging, accessible, and thought provoking. |
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The Conquest of Mexico | 27 |
The Kidnap | 36 |
The Night of Sorrow | 53 |
The Siege | 61 |
The Besieging | 73 |
Gold The Castration of the Sun | 86 |
The British in Tasmania | 115 |
The Black Crows | 127 |
Geronimo The Last Renegade | 233 |
The Caged Tiger | 252 |
The Germans in South West Africa | 269 |
A Darkness That May Be Felt | 273 |
A Place in the Sun | 284 |
The Empire Builders | 294 |
Cruelty and Brutality | 314 |
Never Must We Allow the Negroes to Prevail | 343 |
The Black War | 140 |
The Conciliator | 154 |
The Last Tasmanian | 169 |
The Dispossession of the Apache | 187 |
The Enemy and the People | 205 |
Americas Greatest Guerrilla Fighter | 224 |
They Built No Houses and Dug No Wells | 358 |
Select Bibliography | 371 |
Notes | 378 |
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الصفحة 7 - I have information, all go naked, men and women, as their mothers bore them, although some women cover a single place with the leaf of a plant or with a net of cotton which they make for the purpose. They have no iron or steel or weapons, nor are they fitted to use them, not because they are not well built and of handsome stature, but because they are very marvellously timorous.
الصفحة 7 - It is true that, after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so guileless and so generous with all that they possess, that no one would believe it who has not seen it. They...
الصفحة 18 - On that day, the master of the ship called together a few of the officers, and stated to them, that if the sick slaves died a natural death, the loss would fall on the owners of the ship ; but if they were thrown alive into the sea on any sufficient pretext of necessity for the safety of the ship, it would be the loss of the underwriters...