The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / / Nicolás Wey Gómez
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| Autore: |
Wey Gómez Nicolás
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| Titolo: |
The tropics of empire : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / / Nicolás Wey Gómez
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 592 p. ) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; |
| Disciplina: | 980/.013092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Geography, Medieval |
| Discoveries in geography | |
| Navigation - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | America Discovery and exploration Spanish |
| Tropics Geography | |
| Europe Intellectual life 15th century | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The tropics of empire |
| ISBN: | 0-262-23264-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248157203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Transformations (M.I.T. Press)