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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. Naipaul looks at the Spanish/British colonial rivalry in the Orinoco basin, drawing on contemporary sources written in Spanish and English. [1] .
- V. S. Naipaul
- History
- 1969
- 1969
14 set 2011 · The loss of El Dorado : a history : Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
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 of...
The Loss of El Dorado is an attempt to draw out an older, deeper history of Trinidad, one preceding its commonly taught history as a British-run plantation economy of slaves and indentured workers. The history focuses on two important historical figures, Sir Walter Raleigh and Francisco Miranda.
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The Loss of El Dorado is a history of the formation of colonial society in Trinidad. It tells the story of the development of Naipaul’s own society, and subjectivity. The Loss of El Dorado historicizes the ideas about the disappearance of the indigenous past and the absence of non-European social and artistic traditions that are latent in Biswas.
3 set 2010 · In The Loss of El Dorado, V. S. Naipaul shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a Mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries.
22 mar 2012 · In The Loss of El Dorado, V. S. Naipaul shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and...
