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The Loss of El Dorado, by the Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, is a history book about Venezuela and Trinidad. It was published in 1969. The title refers to the El Dorado legend.
- V. S. Naipaul
- 1969
14. Sept. 2011 · The loss of El Dorado : a history. by. Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-. Publication date. 1984. Topics. El Dorado. Publisher. New York : Vintage Books.
Turning his attention to his homeland, Trinidad, Naipaul reveals a lost history of Spanish, French and English colonialism, all fueled by the frantic, bloody search for El Dorado. Naipaul's three-part structure makes sense and is filled with remarkable anecdotes of greed, folly, slavery, barbarity, and one or two glimpses of decency and humanity.
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7. Apr. 2021 · Previous edition: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1973. With an index. THE THIRD MARQUISATE (1592-1618) -- The mountain of crystal -- Fathers and sons. THE SPANISH CAPITULATION (1633-1797) -- The ghost province -- The three revolutions.
Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery.
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Abstract. This chapter is about historical writing in the West Indies, from the 1960s onwards. Historical writing about the colonial past was a key place in which Caribbean writers in this era analysed the social and cultural impact of that history and looked forward to a decolonized future.
16. März 2011 · In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul—himself a native of Trinidad—shows how that delusion drew a small island into the vortex of world events, making it the object...
