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Wey Gómez Nicolás |
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The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / / Nicolás Wey Gómez |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiv, 592 p. ) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; |
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Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Geography, Medieval |
Discoveries in geography |
Navigation - History |
America Discovery and exploration Spanish |
Tropics Geography |
Europe Intellectual life 15th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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