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- catalog abstract ""The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, Walter D. Mignolo claims that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization. It has long been acknowledged that Amerindians were at a disadvantage in facing European invaders because native cultures did not employ the same kind of texts (hence "knowledge") that the Europeans valued. Yet no one but Mignolo has so thoroughly examined either the process or the implications of conquest and destruction through language. The book continues to challenge commonplace understandings of New World history and to stimulate new colonial and postcolonial scholarship."--Back cover.".
- catalog alternative "Literacy, territoriality, and colonization".
- catalog contributor b13043028.
- catalog coverage "Latin America Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Latin America History To 1600.".
- catalog coverage "Latin America Maps History.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, Walter D. Mignolo claims that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization. It has long been acknowledged that Amerindians were at a disadvantage in facing European invaders because native cultures did not employ the same kind of texts (hence "knowledge") that the Europeans valued. Yet no one but Mignolo has so thoroughly examined either the process or the implications of conquest and destruction through language. The book continues to challenge commonplace understandings of New World history and to stimulate new colonial and postcolonial scholarship."--Back cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-413) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : On describing ourselves describing ourselves : comparatism, differences, and pluritopic hermeneutics -- 1. Nebrija in the new world : Renaissance philosophy of language and the spread of western literacy -- 2. The materiality of reading and writing cultures : the chain of sounds, graphic signs, and sign carriers -- 3. Record keeping without letters and writing histories of people wiithout history -- 4. Genres as social practices : histories, Enkyclopaideias, and the limits of knowledge and understanding -- 5. The movable center : ethnicity, geometric projections, and coexisting territorialities -- 6. Putting the Americas on the map : cartography and the colonization of space -- Afterword : On modernity, colonization, and the rise of occidentalism.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 463 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0472089315 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog spatial "Latin America Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America History To 1600.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America Maps History.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America.".
- catalog spatial "Spain".
- catalog spatial "Spain.".
- catalog subject "980/.013 21".
- catalog subject "Cartography Spain History.".
- catalog subject "F1409.7 .M56 2003".
- catalog subject "Indians Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Indians Languages Writing.".
- catalog subject "Language and history Latin America.".
- catalog subject "Renaissance Spain.".
- catalog subject "Writing History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : On describing ourselves describing ourselves : comparatism, differences, and pluritopic hermeneutics -- 1. Nebrija in the new world : Renaissance philosophy of language and the spread of western literacy -- 2. The materiality of reading and writing cultures : the chain of sounds, graphic signs, and sign carriers -- 3. Record keeping without letters and writing histories of people wiithout history -- 4. Genres as social practices : histories, Enkyclopaideias, and the limits of knowledge and understanding -- 5. The movable center : ethnicity, geometric projections, and coexisting territorialities -- 6. Putting the Americas on the map : cartography and the colonization of space -- Afterword : On modernity, colonization, and the rise of occidentalism.".
- catalog title "Literacy, territoriality, and colonization".
- catalog title "The darker side of the Renaissance : literacy, territoriality, and colonization / Walter D. Mignolo.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".