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Symbol Of Conquest, Alliance, And Hegemony: The Image Of The Cross In Colonial Mexico
(History, 2008-09-17)
The universality of the cross image within the transatlantic confrontation meant not only a hegemony of culture, but of symbolism. The symbol of the cross existed in both European and American societies hundreds of years ...
Giovanni Battista Ramusio And The History Of Discoveries: An Analysis Of Ramusio's Commentary, Cartography, and Imagery in Delle Navigationi et Viaggi
(History, 2007-09-17)
Giovanni Battista Ramusio was a sixteenth-century Venetian scholar who was very interested in the studies of geography and cartography. Ramusio's keen interest was in the findings of travelers and explorers to all parts ...
The Bordes-binford Debate: Transatlantic Interpretive Traditions In Paleolithic Archaeology
(History, 2009-09-16)
In the 1960s, Lewis Binford, a young American archaeologist, challenged François Bordes, a venerable French prehistorian, over the interpretation of a taxonomy Bordes had developed to describe stone tools of the European ...
The World War II Conferences In Washington, D.C. and Quebec City: Franklin D. Roosevelt And Winston S. Churchill
(History, 2008-08-08)
This dissertation seeks to show the evolution of the diplomatic relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill from 1941-1945 based on the five conferences that were held in the Americas beginning in ...