Inventing America Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism |
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| Author:
| Rabasa, Jose |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8061-2539-8 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $31.00 |
Book Description:
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In Inventing America, José 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,...
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In Inventing America, José 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.