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The discovery of mankind : Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus / David Abulafia.
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Abulafia, David
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2008.
Description
xxvi, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
E101 .A28 2008
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Subject(s)
Explorers
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Europe
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History
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First contact (Anthropology)
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Indigenous peoples
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Public opinion
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History
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Public opinion
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Europe
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History
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Acculturation
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History
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Culture conflict
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History
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America
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Discovery and exploration
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European
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Canary Islands
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Discovery and exploration
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European
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Caribbean Area
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Discovery and exploration
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European
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Latin America
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Discovery and exploration
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European
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Summary note
"Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eye-witness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the inhabitants of the Atlantic World, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable and scrupulous, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest of the world."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-366) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Mental horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the imagination. Finding people from other worlds
Wild men and wanderers
Images of Asia
pt. 2. Eastern horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the eastern Atlantic. Innocence and wildness in the Canary Islands, 1341-1400
The Canary Islanders, 1341-1496
Rights of dominion, 1341-1496
Quarrelsome conquerors, 1402-44
Gold and slaves, 1444-96
pt. 3. Western horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the western Atlantic. From the Old Canaries to the New Canaries, 1492
Taínos and Caribs
Turtles, shamans and snorting tubes
Cuba = Cipangu = Japan, 1492
La Navidad, 1492-3
First news of the New World, 1493
Into the Caribbean, 1493-4
Misrule in Hispaniola, 1494-6
The project unravels, 1497-8
Columbus eclipsed, 1498-1506
pt. 4. Southern horizons : the peoples and shores of Atlantic South America. Vespucci's tabloid journalism, 1497-1504
The land of the Holy Cross, 1500
The realm of King Arosca, 1505
A compulsory voluntary 'requirement', 1511-20
The Renaissance discovery of man.
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ISBN
9780300125825 ((alk. paper))
0300125828 ((alk. paper))
9780300158212 ((pbk.))
0300158211 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2007024246
OCLC
144768605
International Article Number
9780300158212
9780300125825
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