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The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the Western World, 16th-18th Centuries
Serge Gruzinski,Sherry L. Fields +1 more
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The Primordial Titles or the Passion for Writing as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of painting and writing, and it has been used extensively in the last few decades to describe the Christianization of the Imaginaire.Abstract:
Introduction. 1. Painting and Writing. 2. Memories to Order. 3. The Primordial Titles or the Passion for Writing. 4. Colonial Idolatry. 5. The Christianization of the Imaginaire. 6. Capturing the Christian Supernatural. 7. A Last Reprieve for Composite Cultures. Conclusion.read more
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Odor and Power in the Americas: Olfactory Consciousness from Columbus to Emancipation
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A History of the New Philology and the New Philology in History
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A dark light: Reflections on obsidian in Mesoamerica
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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America
TL;DR: Greer as discussed by the authors examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England.