Sentences with phrase «colonial conquest»

They seem to demonize people in other times and places, license colonial conquest and other foreign adventures, and conceal the crimes of our own societies.

The films were commissioned in 1963 for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the garden, to document its history but also the jubilee celebrations with their «national» dances, pantomimes of colonial conquest and visiting international botanists; the only Africans in the films are workers.

Displacement, or a state of being rooted in uprootedness, is a consequence of colonial conquest in Africa...

Also in the Neue Galerie are paintings and drawings by Arnold Bode, the founder of Documenta; a painting of Bode by Gerhard Richter; and a drawing of Athens by Theodor Heuss, the first president of West Germany; an 18th - century copy of Le code noir, which formalized the laws of slavery in the French Empire; academic allegorical sculptures representing Western nations by Carl Friedrich Echtermeier; and remarkable bronze sculptures from Benin, a society that British colonial conquest ravaged in 1897.

The Pearl Button (El Botón de Nácar)-- Patricio Guzmán, Chile / France / Spain North American Premiere The great Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile, Nostalgia for the Light) chronicles the history of the indigenous peoples of Chilean Patagonia, whose decimation by colonial conquest prefigured the brutality of the Pinochet regime.

This tendency was set back at the time of the colonial conquest of Libya in 1911, which the socialists bitterly and in some areas violently opposed, and there ensued the dominance for a time of a militantly revolutionary faction led by Benito Mussolini.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

Not exact matches

«Prolonged drought over Mesoamerica during the early Colonial era may have interacted with epidemic disease to contribute to the catastrophic depopulation of Aztec Mexico in the aftermath of the [Spanish] conquest,» states the study.

Quinoa was discovered by Europeans during the Spanish conquest, but its religious significance appeared threatening to colonial authorities, leading to a suppression of the crop.

In contrast to the violent and bloody campaigns to subdue the island, the Dutch colonial administration after Bali conquest can only be described as benign, even enlightened.

The city, which was founded after the Spanish conquest, has attractive old buildings that include churches, convents, and colonial homes — some of these are constructed from white sillar stone, which glimmers in the sun.

I'm reminded of the «Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting» exhibition at the Tate Britain, where a section grouping together landscape paintings evinced something like this shift, albeit one more explicitly political and colonial, and with its own specific «moralizing narrative of conquest,» and aestheticization of power.

Often taking the major themes of modernism as his subject matter, his work has addressed colonial expansion and exploration, evolution, conquest, and innovation.

According to Blackstone, the juridical tools that were available under international law to colonial powers seeking to acquire sovereignty over foreign lands in the 18 th Century were threefold; conquest or treaty (cession) where the land was occupied; or occupation where the land was uninhabited.

Detailed historical research on the colonial frontier unequivocally supports the idea that Aboriginal people were subject to attack, assault, conquest and subjugation: all synonyms for the term «invasion».