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42) The new world
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Criterion collection volume 826
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Captain John Smith leaves the Jamestown fort to explore and trade with the Indians, but he is captured. Princess Pocahontas asks her father to spare Smith's life and they fall in love. When he returns to Jamestown, he finds the people starving. Pocahontas brings supplies, but while saving them English, she falls in disgrace with her people. When the Indians realize that the English will not leave their country, they attack. After a bloody battle,...
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Columbus assured Spain's Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand that he'd conquer "Espąola" with little opposition from its inhabitants, but he soon discovered the promise ominously false. A historical novel, Columbus and Caonab̤: 1493-1498 Retold dramatizes his invasion of the island on his second voyage and the bitter resistance mounted by its Ta̕no peoples, led by the Ta̕no chieftain Caonab̤. Based closely on primary sources, the story is told...
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"Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with other peoples. In chapters offering broad geographic range, the contributors...
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This book tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors who came to the New World on the heels of Cortés. Bound for glory, they landed in Florida in 1528. But only four of the four hundred would survive: eight years and a 5,000-mile journey later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Mexico. The survivors brought nothing back other than their story, but what a tale it was....
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Hasta 1959, cuando apareció por primera vez este libro, ya tantas veces reeditado, el único testimonio difundido sobre la Conquista era la crónica victoriosa de los propios españoles. Miguel León-Portilla tuvo el incomparable acierto de organizar textos traducidos del náhuatl por Ángel María Garibay para darnos la Visión de los vencidos: la imagen que los indios de Tenochtitlan,Tlatelolco,Tezcoco, Chalco y Tlaxcala se formaron acerca de la...
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