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| Named Person: | Christopher Columbus |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicolás Wey Gómez |
| ISBN: | 9780262232647 0262232642 |
| OCLC Number: | 473892189 |
| Description: | xxiv, 592 s. |
| Responsibility: | Nicolás Wey Gómez. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"[A] hefty and impressive study executed with erudition, skill and considerable insight... Those who believed, following the Columbus quincentennial, that there was little left to say about a Genoese sailor's extraordinary adventures overseas will now be convinced otherwise." Neil Safier American Scientist " The Tropics of Empire deserves to become a landmark in the study of the inaugural stirrings of European overseas expansion." Gabriel Paquette The Times Literary Supplement "Mr. [Wey] Gomez's volume... offer[s] tremendous insight into the prevailing medieval understanding of the shape of the world Columbus encountered and absorbed." Alfred W. Crosby The New York Sun Read more...
