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The Loss of El Dorado
- A Colonial History
Engelsk Paperback

The Loss of El Dorado

- A Colonial History
Engelsk Paperback

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At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of the new slave colony.

In The Loss of El Dorado, V. S. Naipaul shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a Mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries. And through an accumulation of casual, awful detail, he takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the Caribbean slave plantations – at the time thought to be more brutal than their American equivalents.

In this brilliantly researched book, living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative – about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution – which is never less than gripping.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780330522847
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0330522841
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 sep 2010
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
3 sep 2010
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