Modern Inquisitions : Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World /
Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2004.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Accused heretics
- Inquisition as bureaucracy
- Mysteries of state
- Globalization and guinea pigs
- States and stains
- New Christians and New World fears
- The Inca's witches
- Becoming Indian.