Tisser dans le désert : interactions et adaptations autour d’un ouvroir missionnaire au Mzab (1892-1950) by Mélina Joyeux

“…Cross-referenced with archives of the colonial administration and ethnographic literature, these missionary sources enable us to question the way in which the sisters perceived and interpreted these interactions, while at the same time looking for clues to the attitude of the local populations towards the mission.First, the mission is set in its social, political, and religious environment, from the reasons that led the missionary fathers and the colonial authorities to call upon the White Sisters, to the profile of the nuns who settled in a particular colonial society with no specific training. …”
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O PRELÚDIO À CONQUISTA DO CARIBE E DA AMÉRICA: A formação da Andaluzia moderna como paradigma do sistema mundo moderno colonial. Olhares descoloniais a partir do sul da Europa/ THE... by Javier García Fernández

“…The forms of conquest, of colonial administration, of economic dispossession and of racialization that the Hispanic Monarchy would take to America - first to the Caribbean and then to continental America - would be rehearsed first in the new Andalusia throughout the sixteenth century. …”
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