Inventing America: Spanish historiography and the formation of Eurocentrism
José Rabasa
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 complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world.
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Année:
1993
Editeur::
University of Oklahoma Press
Langue:
english
ISBN 10:
080612539X
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EPUB, 1.41 MB
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english, 1993