The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.
The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.
The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
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NQ980.01309/1
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xxiv, 592 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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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 --...
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
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Massachusetts
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c2008.
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"Everyone knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, seeking a new route to the East. Few note, however, that Columbus's intention was also to sail south, to the tropics. In The Tropics of Empire, Nicolas Wey Gomez rewrites the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas, casting it as part of Europe's reawak...
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The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.
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Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology.
Transformations.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index.
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NQ980.01309/1
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74VMbL03gq0X
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9780262232647 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262232642 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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980.013092
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991000804969702626
