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Subject(s)

• America—Discovery and exploration—Congresses [Browse]
• America—Relations—Europe—Congresses [Browse]
• Europe—Relations—America—Congresses [Browse]
• America—Relations—Africa—Congresses [Browse]
• Africa—Relations—America—Congresses [Browse]
• America—Race relations—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Hyatt, Vera Lawrence [Browse]
• Nettleford, Rex M., 1933-2010 [Browse]
• Smithsonian Institution [Browse]

Notes

Symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution, 1991.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1492: a new world view / Sylvia Winter
• Romanus Pontifex (1454) and the expansion of Europe / Valentin Y. Mudimbe
• African presence in early America / Ivan van Sertima
• An essay on pre-Columbian contacts between the Americas and other areas, with special reference to the work of Ivan Van Sertim / David H. Kelley
• Discoveries of yesterday and today / Théophile Obenga
• Before Columbus / A.J.R. Russell-Wood
• Perspectives on African Christianity / John Thornton
• The end of Moorish enlightenment and the beginning of the Columbian era / Jan Carew
• North American Indians and the demography of contact / Russell Thornton
• Our sciences their science / Maurice Bazin
• New space, new time / Charles H. Long
• The Polyrhythmic paradigm / Antonio Benítez-Rojo
• Creolization in the making of the Americas / Edouard Glissant.

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ISBN

1560985070 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94021541^

OCLC

30625521

RCP

H - S

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