Trade Paperback
2010 · Cambridge, Massachusetts
by Seed, Patricia
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 14th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Fourteenth printing. Rear cover creased, remainder mark. 2010 Trade Paperback. viii, 199 pp. 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. (Inventory #: 2338675)