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Winds of colonisation: The meteorological contours of Spain's imperium in the Pacific 1521-1898 (2006)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2006). Winds of colonisation: The meteorological contours of Spain's imperium in the Pacific 1521-1898. Environment and History, 12(1), 65-88. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734006776026827

This paper examines the relationship between prevailing weather systems and colonialism in the context of Spanish possessions in the Pacific from Magellan till the end of the nineteenth century. It argues that any historical appreciation of Hispanic... Read More about Winds of colonisation: The meteorological contours of Spain's imperium in the Pacific 1521-1898.

Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625 (2005)
Book
Prior, C. W. (2005). Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495991

© Charles W. A. Prior 2005 and Cambridge University Press, 2009. Proposing a new model for understanding religious debates in the churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625, Charles Prior sets aside 'narrow' analyses of conflict over pred... Read More about Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625.

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005)
Book
Porter, J., & Roemer, K. M. (Eds.). (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831

© Cambridge University Press 2005 and 2006. This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: Literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the presen... Read More about The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature.

Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature (2005)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2005). Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature. In J. Porter, & K. M. Roemer (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature : Part I - Historical and cultural contexts (39-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831.002

Literature tells truths about the past that history cannot articulate. This is a truism with particular resonance in the Native American context because until the watershed years of the late 1960s and early 1970s Indians were either ignored or grossl... Read More about Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature.