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E-book The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas : New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire

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Wy is the District of Columbia, the capital of the United States, named after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on the future US mainland? Why did Spanish Americans in 1819 name the newly independent republic “Colombia” after Columbus, the first representative of the Spanish Empire from which politi-cal independence was recently declared? This book answers these questions.Christopher Columbus introduced the Old World to the New World and thereby changed the course of history and marked the beginning of modernity.1 His accidental “discovery” of the New World in 1492 began the process by which European culture and institutions were transmitted to the Western hemisphere, which in turn also deeply influenced Europe. It also initiated the over-seas extension to the greater Atlantic world of long-standing European imperial rivalries and caused the forced migration of massive numbers of people, the genocide of indigenous peoples and cultures, the ecological modifications of plants and animals, and the environmental destruction of New-World landscapes. Such is Columbus’s legacy.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

970.01 BAR t

Penerbit

USA : Vanderbilt University Press., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

216 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780826519559

Klasifikasi

970.01

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Early History to 1599, Columbus

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