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The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies
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The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies

Author: Nicolás Wey Gómez
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series: Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Christopher Columbus; Albertus, Magnus Saint; Pierre d' Ailly; Bartolomé de las Casas
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nicolás Wey Gómez
ISBN: 9780262232647 0262232642
OCLC Number: 137222779
Description: xxiv, 592 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies -- Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic encounter -- Columbus and the open geography of the ancients -- The meaning of India in pre-Columbian Europe -- From place to colonialism in the Aristotelian tradition -- En la parte del sol : Iberia's invention of the Afro-Indian tropics, 1434-1494 -- Between Cathay and a hot place : reorienting the Asia-America debate -- The tropics of empire in Columbus's Diario.
Series Title: Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Responsibility: Nicolás Wey Gómez.
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