Red Gold: The Conquest Of The Brazilian Indians
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few histories capture the brutal collision of worlds as vividly as Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians, John Hemming's monumental account of the systematic destruction of Brazil's indigenous peoples from the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500 through the colonial era. Hemming chronicles the relentless advance of European settlers, missionaries, and slavers into the Amazon basin, presenting a damning panorama of exploitation, disease, and cultural annihilation that decimated hundreds of tribal nations over four centuries. Drawing on an extraordinary breadth of archival sources — from colonial dispatches and Jesuit letters to the testimonies of explorers — he reconstructs the lives, customs, and fierce resistance of peoples who have left few written records of their own. Hemming's prose carries the authority of both historian and adventurer, combining scholarly rigour with a narrative drive that refuses to reduce the indigenous peoples to passive victims; instead, he illuminates their agency, diplomacy, and courage in the face of overwhelming force. Red Gold stands as the definitive English-language study of Brazil's indigenous history, a landmark work that reshaped how scholars and general readers alike understand the human cost of colonialism in South America. The question it leaves burning is not simply how such devastation was possible, but why so little has changed.
Author: John Hemming
Format: Hardback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few histories capture the brutal collision of worlds as vividly as Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians, John Hemming's monumental account of the systematic destruction of Brazil's indigenous peoples from the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500 through the colonial era. Hemming chronicles the relentless advance of European settlers, missionaries, and slavers into the Amazon basin, presenting a damning panorama of exploitation, disease, and cultural annihilation that decimated hundreds of tribal nations over four centuries. Drawing on an extraordinary breadth of archival sources — from colonial dispatches and Jesuit letters to the testimonies of explorers — he reconstructs the lives, customs, and fierce resistance of peoples who have left few written records of their own. Hemming's prose carries the authority of both historian and adventurer, combining scholarly rigour with a narrative drive that refuses to reduce the indigenous peoples to passive victims; instead, he illuminates their agency, diplomacy, and courage in the face of overwhelming force. Red Gold stands as the definitive English-language study of Brazil's indigenous history, a landmark work that reshaped how scholars and general readers alike understand the human cost of colonialism in South America. The question it leaves burning is not simply how such devastation was possible, but why so little has changed.