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Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples (Hardcover)

by Mark Cocker (Author) "Today, from a vantage point on the slopes of the volcano Popocatepetl, all that the modern visitor can normally make out of Mexico City, sixty-five..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 1st American Ed edition (25 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802116663
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802116666
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.9 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The tragic history of conflict between the Europeans and indigenous peoples spans the globe from Mexico to Australia to Africa to show the effects of the European colonial sweep.
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Today, from a vantage point on the slopes of the volcano Popocatepetl, all that the modern visitor can normally make out of Mexico City, sixty-five kilometres away on its hinter-land of fertile plain, is the muffling cloud of smog. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable antidote to apologists for western imperialism, 4 Jan 2002
This review is from: Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples (Paperback)
The premise of the book has become so cliched that its fundamental truth has almost become obscured. Cocker uncovers in painstaking detail the results of European colonialism in four areas of the world. Without ever romanticizing the societies (the bloody nature of the Aztecs is particularly stressed) that are conquered, he paints a tragic and moving picture. Cocker also stresses something else not often mentioned in history books; how close the conquistadors came to failure and the blind luck with which they conquered the largest city on the earth. A valuable antidote to apologists for European/Western Imperialism.
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