RIVER AMAZON
1. INTRODUCTION
In our imagination - The Lost World - Etymology - Facts and Figures
2. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
History and culture - Exploitation and Resistance - Present day crisis of Peoples
and environment
3. EUROPEANS
Arrival - Spain and Portugal - End of Colonial Rule - Exploitation of indigenous
Peoples - Quinine - Rubber - Fordlandia - City of Manaus
HEROES WITH FEET OF CLAY: CLIVE OF INDIA & FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The phenomena of knocking 'heroes' off their plinths and exposing their...
Definitions, Joan of Arc, and Dracula The difficulty of defining heroes, eg who are heroes in the 21st century? Easier to define villains...
First African slaves arrive in Virginia 1619 Slavery persist in America until 1865 The nature of American Slavery Types of Resistance to...
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