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Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples (Reprint Edition) by Mark Cocker Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-8021-3801-2 / 0802138012 ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3801-9 / 9780802138019 This account of the brutalities of European colonialism concentrates on four episodes--the destruction of the Aztecs, the exterminations of the Tasmanians and the Herero, and the cowing of the Apache. Starting with the general statement that the expansion of European Christian civilization has been |