Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher: Brecourt Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
At head of title: Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets, National Commission for the Celebration of the Quincentellial of the Discovery of America.
Nuova raccolta colombiana. Ediz. inglese
Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher: Brecourt Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
At head of title: Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets, National Commission for the Celebration of the Quincentellial of the Discovery of America.
Publisher: Brecourt Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
At head of title: Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Assets, National Commission for the Celebration of the Quincentellial of the Discovery of America.
The Journal
Author: Cristoforo Colombo
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Atlante colombiano della grande scoperta
Author: Osvaldo Baldacci
Publisher:
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Languages : it
Pages : 200
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Languages : it
Pages : 200
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Columbus
Author: Laurence Bergreen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014312210X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all the difference, an inborn sense of the sea, of wind and weather, and of selecting the optimal course to get from A to B. Laurence Bergreen's energetic and bracing book gives the whole Columbus and most importantly, the whole of his career, not just the highlight of 1492. Columbus undertook three more voyages between 1494 and 1504, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. By their conclusion, Columbus was broken in body and spirit, a hero undone by the tragic flaw of pride. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, this book shows how the subsequent voyages illustrate the costs - political, moral, and economic.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014312210X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all the difference, an inborn sense of the sea, of wind and weather, and of selecting the optimal course to get from A to B. Laurence Bergreen's energetic and bracing book gives the whole Columbus and most importantly, the whole of his career, not just the highlight of 1492. Columbus undertook three more voyages between 1494 and 1504, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. By their conclusion, Columbus was broken in body and spirit, a hero undone by the tragic flaw of pride. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, this book shows how the subsequent voyages illustrate the costs - political, moral, and economic.
The Journal
Author: Cristoforo Colombo
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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The Journal
Author: Cristoforo Colombo
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Columbian Iconography
Author:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 655
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 655
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Le navi di Cristoforo Colombo
Author: Franco Gay
Publisher: Ist. Poligrafico dello Stato
ISBN: 9788824000703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Publisher: Ist. Poligrafico dello Stato
ISBN: 9788824000703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas
Author: Elise Bartosik-Velez
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826503489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, a fundamental recasting of Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in imperial constructs. Bartosik-Velez seeks to explain the meaning of Christopher Columbus throughout the so-called New World, first in the British American colonies and the United States, as well as in Spanish America, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She argues that during the pre- and post-revolutionary periods, New World societies commonly imagined themselves as legitimate and powerful independent political entities by comparing themselves to the classical empires of Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had been construed as a figure of empire for centuries, fit perfectly into that framework. By adopting him as a national symbol, New World nationalists appeal to Old World notions of empire.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826503489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, a fundamental recasting of Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in imperial constructs. Bartosik-Velez seeks to explain the meaning of Christopher Columbus throughout the so-called New World, first in the British American colonies and the United States, as well as in Spanish America, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She argues that during the pre- and post-revolutionary periods, New World societies commonly imagined themselves as legitimate and powerful independent political entities by comparing themselves to the classical empires of Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had been construed as a figure of empire for centuries, fit perfectly into that framework. By adopting him as a national symbol, New World nationalists appeal to Old World notions of empire.
Insatiable Appetites
Author: Kelly L. Watson
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479877654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"In this comparative history of cross-cultural encounters in the early North Atlantic world, Kelly L. Watson argues that the persistent rumours of cannibalism surrounding Native Americans served a specific and practical purpose for European settlers. As they forged new identities and found ways to not only subdue but also co-exist with native peoples, the cannibal narrative helped to establish hierarchical categories of European superiority and Native inferiority upon which imperial power in the Americas was predicated."--Cover.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479877654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"In this comparative history of cross-cultural encounters in the early North Atlantic world, Kelly L. Watson argues that the persistent rumours of cannibalism surrounding Native Americans served a specific and practical purpose for European settlers. As they forged new identities and found ways to not only subdue but also co-exist with native peoples, the cannibal narrative helped to establish hierarchical categories of European superiority and Native inferiority upon which imperial power in the Americas was predicated."--Cover.