SAVIORS AND SCOURAGE OF NATIVE PEOPLES
THE SPECTACULAR RISE IN THE POPULATION spectacular decline in the population of Native Americans. and disease and exploitation do not ...
Open Wounds
The steam railway I rode out of Lima, zig-zagged up the steep western slopes of the Andes and stopped at ...
The Shrinking Forest
When Christopher Columbus first saw the island of Hispaniola, he was awed by its lavishly wood mountains. All are most ...
Through the Looking Glass
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Callicoatl sailed across the ocean in three Aztec boats and found a new conti- nent, a ...
Conquered Women
Our memory is like a broken mirror. It does not reflect the world as it was, but our fragmented, partial, ...
To the Last Drop
Surveying the agricultural and economic prospects of the Boconó region in the Venezuelan Andes in 1841, Italian geographer Agustin Codazzi ...
A Bittersweet Tale
The discovery and conquest of the New World profoundly altered ecological and human balances. Such alterations had been occurring for ...
