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Caroline Dodds Pennock On savage shores
how Indigenous Americans discovered Europe
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders - the reverse was true: they discovered Europe. For them, Europe comprised savage shores, a land of riches and marvels, yet perplexing...
Engels | 302 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2024
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Michael Philip Penn When Christians first met Muslims
a sourcebook of the earliest Syriac writings on islam
Bronnenuitgave van geschriften van Syrische christenen over de eerste ontmoetingen met moslims.
Engels | 254 pagina's | University of Calofornia Press, Oakland, California | 2015
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Alice Roberts Tamed
ten species that changed our world
Engels | 360 pagina's | Hutchinson, London | 2017
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Peter Burke Cultural hybridity
"The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips recently voted the favourite dish in Britain - to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, 'Bollywood' films or salsa and reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena, whilst others fear or condemn them. No wonder, then, that theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Stuart...
Non-fictie
Engels | 142 pagina's | Polity, Cambridge [etc.] | 2009
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Ian D. Whyte World without end?
environmental disaster and the collapse of empires
Aan de hand van vele voorbeelden uit het verleden wordt een poging gedaan antwoord te geven op de vraag hoe en waarom verschillende culturen verdwenen als gevolg van natuurrampen en klimaatverandering.
Non-fictie
Engels | 239 pagina's | I.B. Tauris, London [etc.] | 2008
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