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The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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 | #1694896 in Books |  2008-06-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x2.25 x8.00l,5.53 | File type: PDF | 616 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A gorgeous and crucial book|By Diana Wilson|All the scholarship on Columbus that preceded Tropics of Empire came to seem limited after publication of this book, a gigantic study that explores concepts of latitude as well as attitude—what drove the explorer to sail south. Columbus carried with him ideas and practices of an emerging nation state, Fernando and Isabel’s| ||In this challenging book, Nicolás Wey Gómez proves something everyone thought was impossible: there are useful new things to say about Columbus. (Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Department of History, Tufts University)

|The Tropics of Empir

A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the developing South.

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, Nicol&aac...

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