Faces and Masks
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Faces and Masks

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Faces and Masks

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"A book as fascinating as the history it relates . . . Galeano is a satirist, realist, and historian." — Los Angeles Times
For centuries, Europe's imperial powers brutally exploited the peoples and resources of the New World. While soldiers of fortune marched across continents in search of El Dorado, white settlers established plantations and trading posts along the coasts, altering the land and bringing disease and slavery with them. In the midst of a bloody collision of civilizations, the West has birthed new societies out of the old.
In the second book of his Memory of Fire trilogy, Eduardo Galeano forges a new understanding of the Americas, history retold from a diverse collection of viewpoints. Spanning the end of empire and the age of revolutions,  Faces and Masks brilliantly collects the strands of the past into an iridescent work of literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Epigraph
  6. Promise of America
  7. 1701: Salinas Valley The Skin of God
  8. 1701: Sāo Salvador de Bahia Voice of America
  9. 1701: Paris Temptation of America
  10. 1701: Ouro PrĂȘto Conjuring Tricks
  11. 1703: Lisbon Gold, Passenger in Transit
  12. 1709: The Juan FernĂĄndez Islands Robinson Crusoe
  13. 1711: Paramaribo The Silent Women
  14. 1711: MurrĂ­ They Are Never Alone
  15. 1711: Saint Basil’s Refuge The Black King, the White Saint, and His Sainted Wife
  16. 1712: Santa Marta From Piracy to Contraband
  17. 1714: Ouro PrĂȘto The Mine Doctor
  18. 1714: Vila Nova do PrĂ­ncipe Jacinta
  19. 1716: PotosĂ­ HolguĂ­n
  20. 1716: Cuzco The Image Makers
  21. 1717: Quebec The Man Who Didn’t Believe in Winter
  22. 1717: Dupas Island The Founders
  23. 1718: Sāo José del Rei The Pillory
  24. 1719: PotosĂ­ The Plague
  25. 1721: Zacatecas To Eat God
  26. 1726: Montevideo Bay Montevideo
  27. 1733: Ouro PrĂȘto Fiestas
  28. 1736: Saint John’s, Antigua Flare-ups
  29. 1738: Trelawny Town Cudjoe
  30. 1739: New Nanny Town Nanny
  31. 1742: Juan FernĂĄndez Islands Anson
  32. 1753: Sierra Leone River Let Us Praise the Lord
  33. 1758: Cap Français Macandal
  34. 1761: Cisteil Canek
  35. 1761: Merida Fragments
  36. 1761: Cisteil Sacred Corn
  37. 1763: Buraco de TatĂș The Subversives Set a Bad Example
  38. 1763: Rio de Janeiro Here
  39. 1763: Tijuco The World Inside a Diamond
  40. 1763: Havana Progress
  41. 1766: The Fields of Areco The Wild Horses
  42. 1767: Misiones The Story of Seven Villages
  43. 1767: Misiones The Expulsion of the Jesuits
  44. 1767: Misiones They Won’t Let Their Tongues Be Torn Out
  45. 1769: London The First Novel Written in America
  46. 1769: Lima Viceroy Amat
  47. 1769: Lima La Perricholi
  48. 1771: Madrid Royal Summit
  49. 1771: Paris The Age of Enlightenment
  50. 1771: Paris The Physiocrats
  51. 1771: Paris The Minister of Colonies Explains Why Mulattos Should Not Be Freed from Their Congenital “State of Humiliation”
  52. 1772: Cap Français France’s Richest Colony
  53. 1772: LĂ©ogane Zabeth
  54. 1773: San Mateo Huitzilopochco The Strength of Things
  55. 1774: San Andres ltzapan Dominus Vobiscum
  56. 1775: Guatemala City Sacraments
  57. 1775: Huehuetenango Trees that Know, Bleed, Talk
  58. 1775: Gado-Saby Bonny
  59. 1776: Cape Coast Castle Alchemists of the African Slave Trade
  60. 1776: Pennsylvania Paine
  61. 1776: Philadelphia The United States
  62. 1776: Monticello Jefferson
  63. 1777: Paris Franklin
  64. 1778: Philadelphia Washington
  65. 1780: Bologna Clavijero Defends the Accursed Lands
  66. 1780: Sangarara America Burns from Mountains to Sea
  67. 1780: Tungasuca TĂșpac Amaru II
  68. 1780: Pomacanchi The Workshop Is an Enormous Ship
  69. 1781: BogotĂĄ The Commoners
  70. 1781: TĂĄmara The Plainsmen
  71. 1781: Zipaquirá Galán ‘
  72. 1781: Cuzco The Center of the Earth, the House of the Gods
  73. 1781: Cuzco Dust and Sorrow Are the Roads of Peru
  74. 1781: Cuzco Sacramental Ceremony in the Torture Chamber
  75. 1781: Cuzco Areche’s Order Against Inca Dress and to Make Indians Speak Spanish
  76. 1781: Cuzco Micaela
  77. 1781: Cuzco Sacred Rain
  78. 1781: Chincheros Pumacahua
  79. 1781: La Paz Tupac Catari
  80. 1782: La Paz Rebel Women
  81. 1782: Guaduas With Glassy Eyes,
  82. 1782: Sicuani This Accursed Name
  83. 1783: Panama City For Love of Death
  84. 1783: Madrid The Human Hand Vindicated
  85. 1785: Mexico City Lawyer Villarroel Against the Pulque Saloon
  86. 1785: Mexico City Fiction in the Colonial Era
  87. 1785: Guanajuato The Wind Blows Where It Wants
  88. 1785: Guanajuato Silver Portrait
  89. 1785: Lisbon The Colonial Function
  90. 1785: Versailles The Potato Becomes a Great Lady
  91. 1790: Parti Humboldt
  92. 1790: Petit GoĂąve The Missing Magic
  93. 1791: Bois Caiman The Conspirators of Haiti
  94. 1792: Rio de Janeiro The Conspirators of Brazil
  95. 1792: Rio de Janeiro Tooth-Puller
  96. 1794: Paris “The remedy for man is man,”
  97. 1795: Mountains of Haiti Toussaint
  98. 1795: Santo Domingo The Island Burned
  99. 1795: Quito Espejo
  100. 1795: Montego Bay Instruments of War
  101. 1795: Havana Did the Gallilean Rebel Imagine He Would Be a Slave Overseer?
  102. 1796: Ouro PrĂȘto El Aleijadinho
  103. 1796: Mariana AtaĂ­de
  104. 1796: Sāo Salvador de Bahiā Night and Snow
  105. 1796: Caracas White Skin For Sale
  106. 1796: San Mateo SimĂłn RodrĂ­guez
  107. 1797: La Guaira The Compass and the Square
  108. 1799: London Miranda
  109. 1799: CumanĂĄ Two Wise Men on a Mule
  110. 1799: Montevideo Father of the Poor
  111. 1799: Guanajuato Life, Passion, and Business of the Ruling Class
  112. 1799: Royal City of Chiapas The Tamemes
  113. 1799: Madrid Fernando TĂșpac Amaru
  114. 1800: Apure River To the Orinoco
  115. 1800: Esmeralda del Orinoco Master of Poison
  116. 1800: Uruana Forever Earth
  117. 1801: Lake Guatavita The Goddess at the Bottom of the Waters
  118. 1801: BogotĂĄ Mutis
  119. 1802: The Caribbean Sea Napoleon Restores Slavery
  120. 1802: Pointe-Ă -Pitre They Were Indignant
  121. 1802: Chimborazo Volcano On the Roofs of the World
  122. 1803. Fort Dauphin The Island Burned Again
  123. 1804: Mexico City Spain’s Richest Colony
  124. 1804: Madrid The Attorney General of the Council of the Indies advises against overdoing the sale of whiteness certificates,
  125. 1804: Catamarca Ambrosio’s Sin
  126. 1804: Paris Napoleon
  127. 1804: Seville Fray Servando
  128. 1806: Island of Trinidad Adventures, Misadventures
  129. 1808: Rio de Janeiro Judas-Burning Is Banned
  130. 1809: Chuquisaca The Cry
  131. 1810: Atotonilco The Virgin of Guadalupe Versus the Virgin of Remedios
  132. 1810: Guanajuato El PĂ­pila
  133. 1810: Guadalajara Hidalgo
  134. 1810: Pie de la Cuesta Morelos
  135. 1811: Buenos Aires Moreno
  136. 1811: Buenos Aires Castelli
  137. 1811: Bogotå Nariño
  138. 1811: Chilapa Potbelly
  139. 1811: East Bank Ranges “Nobody is more than anybody,”
  140. 1811: Banks of the Uruguay River Exodus
  141. 1812: Cochabamba Women
  142. 1812: Caracas Bolivar
  143. 1813: Chilpancingo Independence is Revolution or a Lie
  144. 1814: San Mateo Boves
  145. 1815: San CristĂłbal Ecatepec The Lake Comes For Him
  146. 1815: Paris Navigators of Seas and Libraries
  147. 1815: MĂ©rida, Yucatan Ferdinand VII
  148. 1815: CuruzĂș-CuatiĂĄ The Hides Cycle on the River Plata
  149. 1815: Buenos Aires The Bluebloods Seek a King in Europe HO
  150. 1815: Purification Camp Artigas
  151. 1816: East Bank Ranges Agrarian Reform
  152. 1816: Chicote Hill The Art of War
  153. 1816: Tarabuco Juana Azurduy,
  154. 1816: Port-au-Prince PĂ©tion
  155. 1816: Mexico City El Periquillo Sarniento
  156. 1817: Santiago de Chile The Devil at Work
  157. 1817: Santiago de Chile Manuel Rodriguez
  158. 1817: Montevideo Images for an Epic
  159. 1817: Quito Manuela Saenz
  160. 1818: Colonia Camp The War of the Underdogs
  161. 1818: Corrientes Andresito
  162. 1818: ParanĂĄ River The Patriot Pirates
  163. 1818: San Fernando de Apure War to the Death
  164. 1819: Angostura Abecedarium: The Constituent Assembly
  165. 1820: BoquerĂłn Pass Finale
  166. 1821: Camp Laurelty Saint Balthazar, Black King, Greatest Sage
  167. 1821: Carabobo PĂĄez
  168. 1822: Guayaquil San Martin
  169. 1822: Buenos Aires Songbird
  170. 1822: Rio de Janeiro Traffic Gone Mad
  171. 1822: Quito Twelve Nymphs Stand Guard in the Main Plaza
  172. 1823: Lima Swollen Hands from So Much Applauding
  173. 1824: Lima In Spite of Everything
  174. 1824: Montevideo City Chronicles from a Barber’s Chair
  175. 1824: Plain of JunĂ­n The Silent Battle
  176. 1825: La Paz Bolivia
  177. 1825: PotosĂ­ Abecedarium: The Hero at the Peak
  178. 1825: PotosĂ­ England Is Owed a PotosĂ­
  179. 1826: Chuquisaca Bolivar and the Indians
  180. 1826: Chuquisaca Cursed Be the Creative Imagination
  181. 1826: Buenos Aires Rivadavia
  182. 1826: Panama Lonely Countries
  183. 1826: London Canning
  184. 1828: BogotĂĄ Here They Hate Her
  185. 1828: Bogota From Manuela Sáenz’s Letter to Her Husband James Thome
  186. 1829: Corrientes Bonpland
  187. 1829: AsunciĂłn, Paraguay Francia the Supreme
  188. 1829: Rio de Janeiro The Snowball of External Debt
  189. 1830: Magdalena River The Boat Goes Down to the Sea
  190. 1830: Maracaibo The Governor Proclaims:
  191. 1830: La Guaira Divide et Impera
  192. 1830: Montevideo Abecedarium: The Oath of the Constitution
  193. 1830: Montevideo Fatherland or Grave
  194. 1832: Santiago de Chile National Industry
  195. 1833: Arequipa Llamas
  196. 1833: San Vicente Aquino
  197. 1834: Paris Tacuabé
  198. 1834: Mexico City Loving Is Giving
  199. 1835: Galapagos Islands Darwin
  200. 1835: Columbia Texas
  201. 1836: San Jacinto The Free World Grows
  202. 1836: The Alamo Portraits of the Frontier Hero
  203. 1836: Hartford The Colt
  204. 1837: Guatemala MorazĂĄn
  205. 1838: Buenos Aires Rosas
  206. 1838: Buenos Aires The Slaughterhouse
  207. 1838: Tegucigalpa Central America Breaks to Pieces
  208. 1839: CopĂĄn A Sacred City is Sold for Fifty Dollars
  209. 1839: Havana The Drum Talks Dangerously
  210. 1839: Havana Classified Ads
  211. 1839: ValparaĂ­so The Illuminator
  212. 1839: Veracruz “For God’s Sake, a Husband, Be He Old, One-Armed, or Crippled”
  213. 1840: Mexico City Masquerade
  214. 1840: Mexico City A Nun Begins Convent Life
  215. 1842: San José, Costa Rica Though Time Forget You, This Land Will Not
  216. 1844: Mexico City The Warrior Cocks
  217. 1844: Mexico City Santa Anna
  218. 1845: Vuelta de Obligado The Invasion of the Merchants
  219. 1847: Mexico City The Conquest
  220. 1848: Villa of Guadalupe Hidalgo The Conquistadors
  221. 1848: Mexico City The Irishmen
  222. 1848: Ibiray An Old Man in a White Poncho in a House of Red Stone
  223. 1848: Buenos Aires The Lovers (I)
  224. 1848: Holy Places The Lovers (III)
  225. 1848: Bacalar Cecilio Chi
  226. 1849: Shores of the Platte River A Horseman Called Smallpox
  227. 1849: San Francisco The Gold of California
  228. 1849: El Molino They Were Here
  229. 1849: Baltimore Poe
  230. 1849: San Francisco Levi’s Pants
  231. 1850: Son Francisco The Road to Development
  232. 1850: Buenos Aires The Road to Underdevelopment: The Thought of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
  233. 1850: River Plata Buenos Aires and Montevideo at Mid-Century
  234. 1850: Paris Dumas
  235. 1850: Montevide Lautréamont at Four
  236. 1850: Chan Santa Cruz The Talking Cross
  237. 1851: Latacunga “I Wander at Random and Naked 
”
  238. 1851: La Serena The Precursors
  239. 1852: Santiago de Chile “What has independence meant to the poor?” the Chilean Santiago Arcos asks himself in jail.
  240. 1852: Mendoza The Lines of the Hand
  241. 1853: La Cruz The Treasure of the Jesuits
  242. 1853: Paita The Three
  243. 1854: Amotape A Witness Describes Simon Rodriguez’s Farewell to the World
  244. 1855: New York Whitman
  245. 1855: New York Melville
  246. 1855: Washington Territory “You people will suffocate in your own waste,” warns Indian Chief Seattle.
  247. 1856: Granada Walker
  248. 1856: Granada Stood
  249. 1858: Source of the Gila River The Sacred Lands of the Apaches
  250. 1858: Kaskiyeh Geronimo
  251. 1858: San Borja Let Death Die
  252. 1860: Chan Santa Cruz The Ceremonial Center of the Yucatan Rebels
  253. 1860: Havana Poet in Crisis
  254. 1861: Havana Sugar Hands
  255. 1861: Bull Run Grays Against Blues
  256. 1862: Fredericksburg The Pencil of War
  257. 1863: Mexico City “The American Algeria”
  258. 1863: London Marx
  259. 1865: La Paz Belzu
  260. 1865: La Paz Melgarejo
  261. 1865: La Paz The Shortest Coup d’État in History
  262. 1865: Appomattox General Lee Surrenders His Ruby Sword
  263. 1865: Washington Lincoln
  264. 1865: Washington Homage
  265. 1865: Buenos Aires Triple Infamy
  266. 1865: Buenos Aires The Alliance Woven of Spider-Spittle
  267. 1865: San José Urquiza
  268. 1866: CurupaytĂ­ Mitre
  269. 1866: CurupaytĂ­ The Paintbrush of War
  270. 1867: Catamarca Plains Felipe Varela
  271. 1867: Plains of La Rioja Torture
  272. 1867: La Paz On Diplomacy, the Science of International Relations
  273. 1867: Bogota A Novel Called MarĂ­a
  274. 1867: Querétaro Maximilian
  275. 1867: Paris To Be or to Copy, That Is the Question
  276. 1869: Mexico City JuĂĄrez
  277. 1869: San CristĂłbal de Las Casas Neither Earth nor Time Is Dumb
  278. 1869: Mexico City JuĂĄrez and the Indians
  279. 1869: London Lafargue
  280. 1869: Acosta ÑĂș Paraguay Falls, Trampled Under Horses’ Hooves
  281. 1870. Mount CorĂĄ Solano LĂłpez
  282. 1870: Mount CorĂĄ Elisa Lynch
  283. 1870: Buenos Aires Sarmiento
  284. 1870: Rio de Janeiro A Thousand Candelabra Proliferate in the Mirrors
  285. 1870: Rio de Janeiro MauĂ 
  286. 1870: Vassouras The Coffee Barons
  287. 1870: Sāo Paulo Nabuco
  288. 1870: Buenos Aires The North Barrio
  289. 1870: Paris Lautréamont at Twenty-Four
  290. 1871: Lima Juana SĂĄnchez
  291. 1873: Camp TempĂș The Mambises
  292. 1875: Mexico City MartĂ­
  293. 1875: Fort Sill The Last Buffalos of the South
  294. 1876: Little Big Horn Sitting Bull
  295. 1876: Little Big Horn Black Elk
  296. 1876: Little Big Horn Custer
  297. 1876: War Bonnet Creek Buffalo Bill
  298. 1876: Mexico City Departure
  299. 1877: Guatemala City The Civilizer
  300. 1879: Mexico City The Socialists and the Indians
  301. 1879: Choele-Choel Island The Remington Method
  302. 1879: Buenos Aires MartĂ­n Fierro and the Twilight of the Gaucho
  303. 1879: Port-au-Prince Maceo
  304. 1879: Chinchas Islands Guano
  305. 1879: Atacama and TarapacĂĄ Deserts Saltpeter
  306. 1880: Lima The Chinese
  307. 1880: London In Defense of Indolence
  308. 1881: Lincoln City Billy the Kid
  309. 1882: Saint Joseph Jesse James
  310. 1882: Prairies of Oklahoma Twilight of the Cowboy
  311. 1882: New York You Too Can Succeed in Life
  312. 1882: New York The Creation According to John D. Rockefeller
  313. 1883: Bismarck City The Last Bufelos of the North
  314. 1884: Santiago de Chile The Wizard of Finance Eats Soldier Meat
  315. 1884: Huancayo The Fatherland Pays
  316. 1885: Lima “The trouble comes from the top,” says Manuel Gonzalez Prada.
  317. 1885: Mexico City “All belongs to all,”
  318. 1885: Colon PrestĂĄn
  319. 1886: Chivilcoy The Circus
  320. 1886: Atlanta Coca-Cola
  321. 1887: Chicago Every May First They Will Live Again
  322. 1889: London North
  323. 1889: Montevideo Football
  324. 1890: River Plata Comrades
  325. 1890: Buenos Aires Tenements
  326. 1890: Hartford Mark Twain
  327. 1890: Wounded Knee Wind of Snow
  328. 1891: Santiago de Chile Balmaceda
  329. 1891: Washington The Other America
  330. 1891: New York The Thinking Begins to Be Ours, Believes José Martí
  331. 1891: Guanajuato 34 Cantarranas Street. Instant Photography
  332. 1891: PurĂ­sima del RincĂłn Lives
  333. 1892: Paris The Canal Scandal
  334. 1892: San José, Costa Rica Prophesy of a Young Nicaraguan Poet Named Rubén Darío
  335. 1893: Canudos Antonio Conselheiro
  336. 1895: Key West Freedom Travels in a Cigar
  337. 1895: Playitas The Landing
  338. 1895: Arroyo Hondo In the Sierra
  339. 1895: Dos Rios Campo Martí’s Testament
  340. 1895: Niquinohomo His Name Will Be Sandino
  341. 1896: Port-au-Prince Disguises
  342. 1896: Boca de Dos Rios Requiem
  343. 1896: Papeete Flora TristĂĄn
  344. 1896: Bogotå José Asunción Silva
  345. 1896: Manaos The Tree That Weeps Milk
  346. 1896: Manaos The Golden Age of Rubber
  347. 1897: Canudos Euclides da Cunha
  348. 1897: Canudos The Dead Contain More Bullets Than Bones
  349. 1897: Rio de Janeiro Machado de AssĂ­s
  350. 1898: Coasts of Cuba This Fruit Is Ready to Fall
  351. 1898: Washington Ten Thousand Lynchings
  352. 1898: San Juan Hill Teddy Roosevelt
  353. 1898: Coasts of Puerto Rico This Fruit Is Falling
  354. 1898: Washington President McKinley Explains That the United States Should Keep the Philippines by Direct Order of God
  355. 1899. New York Mark Twain Proposes Changing the Flag
  356. 1899: Rome Calamity Jane
  357. 1899: Rome The Nascent Empire Flexes Its Muscles
  358. 1899: Saint Louis Far Away
  359. 1899: Rio de Janeiro How to Cure by Killing
  360. 1900: Huanuni Patiño
  361. 1900: Mexico City Posada
  362. 1900: Mexico City Porfirio DĂ­az
  363. 1900: Mexico City The Flores MagĂłn Brothers
  364. 1900: Merida, Yucatån Henequén
  365. 1900: Tabi The Iron Serpent
  366. The Sources
  367. Index
  368. Preview: Century of the Wind
  369. Acknowledgments
  370. Translator’s Acknowledgment
  371. About the Author
  372. About the Translator
  373. Copyright Page