Forgotten Conquests : Rereading New World History from the Margins

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verdesio, Gustavo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uruguay--Discovery and exploration--Historiography.

Uruguay.

Indians of South America--First contact with other peoples--Uruguay.

Indians of South America.

Uruguay--History--To 1810--Historiography.

Indians in literature.

Uruguay--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Borrowing from the old adage, we might say that to the victor belongs the history. One of the privileges gained in colonizing the New World was the power to tell the definitive stories of the struggle. The heroic texts depicting the discovery of territories, early encounters with indigenous peoples, and the ultimate subjection of land and cultures to European nation-states all but erase the vanquished. In Forgotten Conquests, Gustavo Verdesio argues that these master narratives represent only one of many possible histories and suggests a way of reading them in order to discover th

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Entrance to Historical Time; 2. Years of Disappointment, or The Long European Siesta; 3. The Pacific Penetration; 4. Empires in Conflict; 5. The Encyclopedias; 6. The Tentative Gaze of the Traveler; Conclusion: The Territory as the Stage for the Drama of Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781439907788

1439907781

OCLC:

709551279