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European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism

1 review
Anthony Pagden

Yale University Press, 1994

How the Discovery of the New World Changed the Old
Anthony Pagden's 1993 book, "European Encounters with the New World," is a socio-cultural historical study of the ways and means by which the 'discovery' of the New World left indelible impressions upon the Old World. The book revolves around European attempts from Columbus in 1492, to Alexander von Humboldt, in 1799, to understand what the discovery meant - from how Europeans thought about the ...

The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge Iberian and ...
Anthony Pagden

Cambridge University Press, 1982

This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and 1724 a simple determinist view of human society was replaced by a more sophisticated relativist approach. Anthony Pagden uses new methods of technical analysis, already developed in philosophy ...

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

7 reviews
Anthony Pagden

Oxford University Press, 2008

a magisterial work, useful and lucid
This is an excellent work of history. Correction: it is not so much a history - though it is historical through and through - as it is a particular interpretation of one very important aspect of world history: namely, the seemingly endless and seemingly inexplicable antagonism between West (the cultural region where individual and group rights, liberty and liberties, and specific ...

Facing Each Other: The World's Perception of Europe and Europe's Perception of the World (An Expanding World, ...

Ashgate Publishing, 2000

Letters from Mexico

3 reviews
Hernan Cortes

Yale University Press, 1987

Oranges and Hernan Cortes
The story begins with the planting of A Orange Tree and ends with the the conquest of Mexico. Cortes is a man driven by adventure and the lure of wealth in the new lands. It is however sad that he ends up in love with the place and culture that he finally destroys. The book gives a blow by blow description of the political intrigue of the church, the crown and of course Cortes men. At one ...

Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

Princeton University Press, 1989

". . . a pioneer reconnaissance of the notion of colonial identity in the post-Columbian world."--B. W. Higman, The Journal of American History "It is these creoles, `colonials' as opposed to the `colonised,' who form the subjects of Canny and Pagden's intelligent new book. In its compact pages we watch the {colonials} attempting to work out `who' and just how `new/old' they were during centuries unhaunted by the spectre of ...

Lords of all the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-c.1800

1 review
Anthony Pagden

Yale University Press, 1995

An examination of the foundations of Empire
This book examines the different ideologies behind the empires of the great European powers. This book does not examine the impact of empire upon native people, that is not it's focus. It can be tedious at times, but overall is very informative and interesting.

Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

15 reviews
Bartolome de Las Casas, Anthony Pagden, ...

bnpublishing.com, 2007

Essential Reading
"A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" is a powerful written protest against the Spanish treatment of the American Indians. Bartolome de las Casas, a Dominican friar, witnessed first-hand the colonization of the Americas by the Spaniards, and felt it his duty to document the atrocities. He dedicated "short account" to King Philip II, in the hope that once he was aware of the ...

People and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the ...

14 reviews
Anthony Pagden

audible.com

A Little Gem
I just finished Pagden's little gem. Tired of the neo-con's oversimplification and the post-modern's blather? Treat yourself to an 180 page antidote. His coverage of such a vast field is beautifully conceived and his his prose is a joy. He is justly critical of the way the West violated its core values and its own best instincts along with the rights of the people it dominated during the ...

Peoples and Empires
Anthony Pagden

Random House Inc, 2003

The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union

Cambridge University Press, 2002

This book addresses the question of what it means, and has meant, to be "European," covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. The essays discuss questions of politics, law, religion, culture, literature, and even affectivity in a broad account of how a distinctive European identity has grown over the centuries and its place in the future evolution of the European Union. In the massive literature of European ...

The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe (Ideas in Context)

Cambridge University Press, 1987

This volume studies the concept of a political 'language', of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has been widely influential on recent work in the history of political thought. The collection brings together a number of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars, on the four dominant languages in use in Europe between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth ...

Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace.(Empires, history; American imperialism): An article ...
Anthony Pagden

Thomson Gale, 2005

This digital document is an article from Daedalus, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 6683 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual ...

Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, Imperialisms examines early identity statements and nuances of dominance of the world's major imperialisms in various theatres of competition. Developed in collaboration with leading scholars in the field, this book balances historical essays and case studies, and encourages investigations of conversant and competing imperialisms, their practices, and their rhetoric of ...

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