{"product_id":"columbus-and-the-ends-of-djelal-kadir-9780520074422","title":"Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology","description":"Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kadir's timely review of the founding doctrines of empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe language of prophecy and divine predestination fills the pronouncements of those who ventured across the Atlantic. The effects of such language and their implications for current theoretical debates about colonialism and decolonization are legion. Kadir suggests that in this supposedly postcolonial era, richer nations and the privileged still manipulate the rhetoric of conquest to justify and serve their own worldly ends. For colonized peoples who live today at the \"ends of the earth,\" the age of exploitation may be no different from the age of exploration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Djelal Kadir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520074424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520074422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 6.27w x 0.84d","brand":"Djelal Kadir","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064994476287,"sku":"9780520074422","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_880c9c23-dbd7-4b08-994c-d2a7292e3f8b.jpg?v=1768672430","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/columbus-and-the-ends-of-djelal-kadir-9780520074422","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}