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Rivers of blood, rivers of gold
Europe's conquest of indigenous peoples
By Cocker, Mark
- ISBN
- 978-0-80211-666-6
- Publisher
- New York : Grove Press, [2000], c1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2000
Cocker, a British journalist, provides vivid details of four episodes of European atrocities and imperialism. The examples he relates involve encounters with the Aztecs, Tasmanians, Apache, and southwest Africans. The details and evocation of horror are the book's strength. Its major flaw is the misuse of the word tribal, which...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
