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The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies

Title: The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.
Author: Wey Gómez, Nicolás.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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xxiv, 592 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Transformations

Uniform Title

Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index.

Contents

Introduction : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies -- Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic encounter -- Columbus and the open geography of the ancients -- The meaning of India in pre-Columbian Europe -- From place to colonialism in the Aristotelian tradition -- En la parte del sol : Iberia's invention of the Afro-Indian tropics, 1434-1494 -- Between Cathay and a hot place : reorienting the Asia-America debate -- The tropics of empire in Columbus's Diario.

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JFE 08-5568

ISBN

9780262232647 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262232642 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007020947

OCLC

137222779

Author

Wey Gómez, Nicolás.

Title

The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Series

Transformations

Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index.

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JFE 08-5568

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