In 1492, previously separate worlds collided and began to merge, often painfully, into the world-system in which we live today. Columbus’s four Atlantic voyages (1492-1504) helped link Africa, Europe, and the Americas in a conflicted economic and cultural symbiosis. These carefully selected documents describe the voyages and their immediate impact on Europe and the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. Symcox and Sullivan’s engaging introduction presents Columbus as neither hero nor villain, but as a significant historical actor who improvised responses to a changed world. Document headnotes provide context for understanding Columbus’s voyages within the broader context of fifteenth-century Europe and the policies of the Spanish crown. Maps, illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography invite students to analyze and interpret the documents.
O autorze
Geoffrey Symcox is Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles and General Editor of theRepertorium Columbianum.
Blair Sullivan is Managing Editor for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at University of California, Los Angeles and Associate Editor of the
Repertorium Columbianum.
Język Angielski ● Format PDF ● Strony 192 ● ISBN 9781137080592 ● Rozmiar pliku 23.1 MB ● Wydawca Palgrave Macmillan US ● Miasto New York ● Kraj US ● Opublikowany 2016 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 5213108 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Społeczny DRM