Thomas Benjamin
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The Atlantic World : Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900
2009
From ca. 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures, economies, and ideas throughout the Atlantic arena. The Atlantic World provides a comprehensive and lucid history of one of the most important and impactful cross-cultural encounters in human history. Empires, ec....[more]
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
2006
The Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 provides the most comprehensive, accessible, and international reference work about the entirety of Western colonialism from the Portuguese voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator in the fifteenth century to the making of feature film about British colonialism in India in the twenty-first century. The Encyclopedia presents over four hundred articles in three volumes
The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire
2000
This secondary source reader centers around the age of exploration and its resulting encounters between cultures, particularly around the Atlantic Ocean. It examines the varying historical viewpoints on the extent of European domination in the Atlantic World. Each volume has chapter introductions, essay introductions, timelines, and annotated bibliographies.
La Revolucion : Mexico's Great Revolution As Memory, Myth and History
2000
The 1910 Revolution is still tangibly present in Mexico in the festivals that celebrate its victories, on the monuments to its heroes, and, most important, in the stories and memories of the Mexican people. Yet there has never been general agreement on what the revolution meant, what its objectives were, and whether they have been accomplished. This pathfinding book shows how Mexicans from 1910 through the 1950s interpreted the revolution, tried to make sense of it, and, through collective memor....[more]
A Rich Land, a Poor People : Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas
1985
Benjamin delineates the basic continuity in the history of Chiapas from the 1890s to 1995.
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