Beyond El Dorado
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Beyond El Dorado
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Author : Elisenda Vila Llonch
language : en
Publisher: British Museum Press
Release Date : 2013
Beyond El Dorado written by Elisenda Vila Llonch and has been published by British Museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
In ancient Colombia, people did not use gold as currency or desire it for its economic value. Gold was revered instead for its symbolic association and transformative properties. This sacred metal was used to create some of the most visually dramatic and technically sophisticated works of art found anywhere in the Americas before European contact. Drawing on the spectacular collections of the Museum del Oro in Bogota and the British Museum, this beautiful book features over 100 masterpieces fashioned exquisitely in gold and its alloy tumbaga, including small votive figures, decorative nose rings and earrings, vessels, pectorals and masks. These are presented alongside an array of other highly valued objects textiles, ceramic figurines, shells, colourful stone beads which also played a significant part in daily and ritual contexts. -- Publisher's blurb.
El Dorado In The Marshes
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Author : Massimo Livi Bacci
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2010
El Dorado In The Marshes written by Massimo Livi Bacci and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The search for gold and for the mythical El Dorado gripped the imagination of the conquistadors from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Crossing over the Andes, they explored the unknown eastern forests and jungles, launching expeditions that were often disastrous and always disappointing. As the range of exploration expanded, El Dorado retreated, always just beyond the horizon. The last goal of these explorations was the land of the Mojos, a land located in the upper Amazon basin and which lies many months of the year submerged under water. It is a mysterious land and, as legend had it, inhabited by a people rich in gold and precious stones. Yet all the Spaniards found – as narrated in these compelling pages – was a limitless swamp, sparsely inhabited by a small number of people and so ill suited to usual system of productive forced labor. It was the Jesuits instead who established here a network of missions second in size and population only to that or Paraguay and so went in search of souls rather than gold.
Dreams Of El Dorado
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Author : H. W. Brands
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-10-22
Dreams Of El Dorado written by H. W. Brands and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with History categories.
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
Beyond Hawai I
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Author : Gregory Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-05-04
Beyond Hawai I written by Gregory Rosenthal and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-04 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.
Boki's predicament : Sandalwood and the China trade -- Make's dance : Migrant workers and migratory animals -- Kealoha in the Arctic : Whale blubber and human bodies -- Kailiopio and the tropicbird : Life and labor on a Guano Island -- Nahoa's tears : Gold, dreams, and diaspora in California -- Beckwith's Pilikia : "Kanakas" and "Coolies" on Haiku plantation -- Epilogue : Legacies of capitalism and colonialism
The Golden Man
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Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Golden Man written by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with America categories.
"El Dorado. The golden man. Those doughty adventurers who first began to probe the secrets of the New World were fascinated by whispers of treasure beyond belief somewhere in the mountains of Colombia. There, said the native Indians, lived a people "rich in gold" with a chief who once a year as part of a religious ritual covered himself with the precious metal's dust. So began an incredible saga of adventure - Spaniards, Germans, French, British, Dutch and Portuguese sprawled across an almost unknown continent in their search for a phantom. The New World replaced the Old World's mythology of unbounded riches in legendary places in the deserts and cities of the Mediterranean and Asia. From a golden man, El Dorado grew into a city of gold and drew untold numbers to death. It became the metaphor for the unattainable. Sir Walter Raleigh, England's hero, great adventurer and man of letters, died on the block because he, too, caught the fever of El Dorado. He and countless others failed to prove its existence was no legend. But they discovered a continent. Victor von Hagen, himself an explorer and traveller of no mean accomplishment, has followed their footsteps through jungles and country where disease and other hazards turned death into monotonous tragedy. He has no need to dramatise the people and events he has documented; his approach to the vast tapestry and his presentation results in the greatest real-life adventure stories yet told. The myths of the heroics of the questers for the Golden Fleece and the Holy Grail become minor narratives alongside von Hagen's brilliant and exciting account of the actual events and the men who precipitated them." -- dust jacket.
Beyond The West
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Author : George W. Pine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
Beyond The West written by George W. Pine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Colorado categories.
Lands Beyond
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Author : Lyon Sprague De Camp
language : en
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Rinehart
Release Date : 1952
Lands Beyond written by Lyon Sprague De Camp and has been published by New York ; Toronto : Rinehart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Folklore categories.
Beyond Borders
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Author : Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech
language : en
Publisher: V&R unipress
Release Date : 2023-02-07
Beyond Borders written by Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech and has been published by V&R unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This trilingual volume focuses on acts of transgressive acting/writing in selected texts of European literatures whose authors differ in gender, nationality and time frame. Thus, the contributions collected here consider a double questioning: of difference and transgression of norms. Both concepts are set in relation to each other in order to be able to embed any transition in cultural-social-historical contexts. The analyses and interpretations of selected texts from German, French, Polish, Russian and ancient literature, presented in chronological order, show exemplary acts of transgression in different cultures and under changing time circumstances and document aesthetic attempts to revise the existing order and create a new one.
Seeking El Dorado
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Author : Lawrence B. de Graaf
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Seeking El Dorado written by Lawrence B. de Graaf and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with History categories.
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
Secrets Of El Dorado
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Author : Germán Arciniegas
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1990
Secrets Of El Dorado written by Germán Arciniegas and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Colombia categories.
