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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
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This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive ...
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Aztecs: An Interpretation
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In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns ...
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Reading the Holocaust
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Fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumoring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement, and the demoralization that attends it. Exploring the experience of the Holocaust from ...
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Dancing with Strangers
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
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In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. Inga Clendinnen offers a fresh reading of the ...
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Tiger's eye
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'A decade ago I fell ill,' writes Inga Clendinnen. ' "Fall" is the right word: it is almost as alarming and quite as precipitous as falling in love.' In this deeply personal book she takes us on a journey into dangerous territory in which her body, her mind and her life itself are irrevocably changed. Waiting for the mysterious interventions of ...
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Tiger's Eye: A Memoir
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This memoirist, who is fighting liver disease, offers a lyric account of her youth in World War II-era Australia through the lens of her current illness, which causes a hallucinatory state. Here she delves into the streams of her own consciousness, shaping her memories into an account of her childhood and presenting an impressionistic portrait of ...
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Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays
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True Stories
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History Question: Issue 23: Who Owns the Past?
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