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Alexander and Ashoka: two divergent conceptions of power

"With fifty men, we could subjugate them all": Columbus in the New World

God and Power: The Christian justification for genocide

The European myth: Exploitation as racial destiny

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The Conundrum of Admiral Zheng He and Christopher Columbus

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Columbus Day? How about Hitler Day?

Living off garbage: the future is now

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Recommended Further Reading
 

Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250–1350 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
An illuminating portrayal of the global order that existed before the rise of European colonialism.

David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
An unflinching and shocking exposé of the brutality unleashed by the European conquest of the New World.

Eduardo Galleano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.  (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.)
A classic history of the exploitation and destruction of the indigenous people of South America.

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