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ceremonies of possession in europes conquest of the new world 1492 1640
this work of comparative history explores the array of ceremonies that the english the spanish the french the portuguese and the dutch performed to enact their taking possession of the new world . the book develops the historic cultural contexts of these ceremonies and tackles the implications of these histories for contemporary nation states of the post colonial era .
paperback cambridge university press 1995 isbn 0521497574
abridged n isbn 13 9780521497572 number of pages 207 publisher cambridge univ pr release date 62135769600000