[PDF.49md] Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (Latin America Otherwise)

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 Arendt’s insights into the barbaric underside of Western civilization and moves them back to the sixteenth century and seventeenth, when Spanish colonialis...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (Latin America Otherwise)   |  Irene Silverblatt. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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