books about: colonizers

books about: colonizers

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Colonizers

Bruce Olson: Missionary or colonizer?

Andres Kung

Christian Herald Books, 1981

One of the most challenging pieces on a missionary!
"Bruce Olson [author of "Bruchko", Creation House, Lake Mary, FL.] is one of the most challenging pieces on a missionary loner in our time. The character of Bruce Olson is finally vindicated but much more than that comes out. Here is an accurate, colorful profile of ...

The Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Complete

LeClue22, 2008

Columbus' voyages across the Atlantic Ocean began a European effort at exploration and colonization of the Western Hemisphere. While history places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, he did not actually reach the American mainland until his third voyage in 1498. Instead, he made landfall on an island in the Bahamas Archipelago that he ...

The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

J.M. Blaut

The Guilford Press, 1993

Pops a Few European Balloons
This is a good critique of the assumptions made by Eurocentric historians over the years about the superiority of Europe as compared to the inferiority of the rest of the world. Blaut effectively examines and explodes each theory dispassionately but thoroughly. ...

Life on the Oregon Trail (Way People Live)

Gary L. Blackwood

Lucent Books, 1999

Life on the Oregon Trail
"Life on the Oregon Trail" is one of the series "The Way People Live", telling events of historical significance written in prose format. Readers will identify with the families as they begin to make decisions of right and wrong in preparation for the trip from East ...

The Colonizer and the Colonized

Albert Memmi

Beacon Press, 1991

One of the top books of all time
Memmi captures the contradictions and destructive forces of colonialism from an individual perspective, but more importantly he provides us with a work that transends his subject matter and allows for greater understanding of the manner in which structural and ...

The Viking Codex: The Saga of Leif Eriksson
Fiona MacDonald

Book House, 2008

Voyage with Eric the Red and his son Leif Eriksson as they set out across the wild Atlantic Ocean to settle strange new lands. Facts about Viking culture and history are made accessible through a dramatic unfolding narrative. Vivid gatefold illustrations and 'saga' booklets help to make you feel as though you were really there. Includes additional ...

History Makers - Great Conquerors
Claire Price-Groff

Lucent Books, 2000

The history of the world turns on the deeds and lives of certain pivotal individuals. This book provides insight into the personalities of seven such men, who though they represent different periods of history and different cultures, have directly affected our world today. (20020801)

Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart
William B. Smart

Utah State University Press, 2008

Biography of religious and civic leader who organized Mormon settlement of Ute reservation lands in the Utah's Uinta Basin

Cultures of Empire: A Reader: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Catherine Hall

Routledge, 2000

With the work of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhaba, and others, the field of postcolonial studies has grown enormously in the past two decades, as the cultural impact of colonialism on both the colonizers and the colonized has become the object of intense scrutiny. Cultures of Empire collects the most sensitive and up to date examples of ...

Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
Eric Jennings

Duke University Press, 2006

?Beware! Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy.? So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France?s main spas. Throughout the French empire, spas featuring water cures, often combined with ?climatic? cures, thrived during the nineteenth century and the twentieth. Water cures and high-altitude resorts were widely believed ...

Hernan Cortes: The Life of a Spanish Conquistador (Graphic Non-fiction)
Jackie Gaff

Book House, 2005

After establishing himself in Cuba as a fighter, gambler and fortune hunter, Cortes embarks on a expedition to find a mysterious civilization rumoured to be rich with gold. This civilization is the land of the Aztecs. Three years later, with tens of thousands of Aztecs dead at the hands of heavily armed Europeans, Cortes oversees the setting up of ...

Eight Eurocentric Historians

J.M. Blaut, James M. . Blaut

The Guilford Press, 2000

Useful and inspiring criticism of Eurocentrism in history
James Blaut's "Eight Eurocentric Historians" is part 2 in his three-part series on what he calls the 'colonizer's model of the world', that is, the Eurocentrism of many historians, anthropologists and social scientists when discussing the sources of Europe's rise to ...