Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism Volume 11

by José Rabasa

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In Inventing America, Jos Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:080612539X

ISBN13:9780806125398

Release Date:February 1994

Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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