The Conquest of the North Atlantic
Title | The Conquest of the North Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Jules Marcus |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781843833161 |
The story of how the fearsome Atlantic Ocean was explored by early sailors, including the Vikings, whose brilliant navigation matched their bravery.
The conquest of the North Atlantic
Title | The conquest of the North Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | G. J. Marcus |
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Release | 1978 |
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The Conquest of the Atlantic by Air
Title | The Conquest of the Atlantic by Air PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Herbert Dixon |
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Pages | 246 |
Release | 1934 |
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The Conquest of the Atlantic
Title | The Conquest of the Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Ingri D'Aulaire |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1933 |
Genre | Atlantic Ocean |
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Discusses knowledge of, and travel across the Atlantic Ocean from the myths of the Middle Ages through the beginnings of regular travel by air in the 1930s.
The Conquest of the Atlantic by Air. [With Plates.].
Title | The Conquest of the Atlantic by Air. [With Plates.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Charles DIXON (of the Royal Air Force.) |
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Pages | 246 |
Release | 1931 |
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Atlantic History
Title | Atlantic History PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Bailyn |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674020405 |
Atlantic history is a newly and rapidly developing field of historical study. Bringing together elements of early modern European, African, and American history--their common, comparative, and interactive aspects--Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western civilization, from the first contacts of Europe with the Western Hemisphere to the independence movements and the globalizing industrial revolution. In these probing essays, Bernard Bailyn explores the origins of the subject, its rapid development, and its impact on historical study. He first considers Atlantic history as a subject of historical inquiry--how it evolved as a product of both the pressures of post-World War II politics and the internal forces of scholarship itself. He then outlines major themes in the subject over the three centuries following the European discoveries. The vast contribution of the African people to all regions of the West, the westward migration of Europeans, pan-Atlantic commerce and its role in developing economies, racial and ethnic relations, the spread of Enlightenment ideas--all are Atlantic phenomena. In examining both the historiographical and historical dimensions of this developing subject, Bailyn illuminates the dynamics of history as a discipline.
The Business of Conquest
Title | The Business of Conquest PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole D. Legnani |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-12-15 |
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ISBN | 9780268108960 |
The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demonstrates how the financing and partnerships behind early expeditions betray their own praxis of imperial power as a business, even as the laws of the Indies were being written. She interrogates how and why apologists of Spanish Christian empire, such as José de Acosta, found themselves justifying the Spanish conquest as little more than a joint venture between crown and church that relied on violent actors in pursuit of material profits but that nonetheless served to propagate Christianity in overseas territories. Focusing on cultural and economic factors at play, and examining not only the chroniclers of the era but also laws, contracts, theological treatises, histories, and chivalric fiction, Legnani traces the relationship between capital investment, monarchical power, and imperial scalability in the Conquest. In particular, she shows how the Christian virtue of caritas (love and charity of neighbor, and thus God) became confused with cupiditas (greed and lust), because love came to be understood as a form of wealth in the partnership between the crown and the church. In this partnership, the work of the conquistador became, ultimately, that of a traveling business agent for the Spanish empire whose excess from one venture capitalized the next. This business was thus the business of conquest, and featured entrepreneurial violence as its norm--not exception. The Business of Conquest offers an original examination of this period, including the perspectives of both the creators of the colonial world (monarchs, venture capitalists, conquerors, and officials), of religious figures (such as Las Casas), and finally of indigenous points of view to show how a venture capital model can be used to analyze the partnership between crown and church. It will appeal to students and scholars of the early modern period, Latin American colonial studies, capitalism, history, and indigenous studies.