The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
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The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500, western Europeans struggled to make sense of the existence of the peoples they met. Were they Adam's children,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300125828
ISBN13:9780300125825
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:379 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"
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