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Best colonial literature? Read king Solomon’s mines, heart of darkness, several west African travel books from the 18th century, and the conquest of Mexico. All this stuff about cultures you never hear about really fascinate me, and the dichotomy between the “savage” and the colonizer makes for good story. Can be fiction or nonfiction, as long as the fiction is good.

>> No.18091426
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>>18091424

>> No.18091434

>the conquest of Mexico
What does that have to do with colonialism?

>> No.18091450

>>18091434
>what does a book about the Spanish defeating the natives and paving the way for a colony have to do with colonization?

>> No.18091465

>>18091450
What colony?; where?; how was it a colony?

>> No.18091486

>>18091450


NEW SPAIN WAS A VICEKINGDOM, NOT A COLONY; THE HISPANICAL MONARCHY WAS CONSTITUTED INTO A UNIVERSAL EMPIRE, NOT INTO A COLONIAL POLITY.

>> No.18091487

>>18091465
I said paving the way. And Mexico as we know it became a colony of the Spanish empire, in case you didn’t know.

>> No.18091503

>>18091486
>make natives subjects of white ruling class
>directly annex lands
>not a colony because they passed power to nobles instead of colonial governors
Hmmmmm......

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>>18091503


?

>> No.18091658

>>18091487
?

>> No.18092859

>>18091424
bump

>> No.18092895

>tfw you'll never explore and conquer unknown lands with your boys

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>> No.18093072

Kipling's Barrack-room Ballads. Gunga Din and Mandalay are two of my favorites. The Ballad of East and West is quite good too.

>> No.18094041

>>18091424
the stranger
portrait of the artist as a young man
empire of the sun

>> No.18094067

>>18091503
the spanish by and large maintained the existing social hierarchy in its mexican territories, simply replacing the aztec as the top of the tribute food chain. mexico already possessed an advanced urban civilization so has a very unique experience from places like, say, cuba or argentina. i'd argue that the actual colonial parts of mexico don't begin until the development of the mission system in the northwest, which constituted a major break from the pre-conquest social consensus