TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abulafia,David
TI  - The discovery of mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus 
SN  - 0300125828
AV  - E101 .A28 2008
U1  - 970.01 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New Haven [Conn.]
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - History
KW  - Culture conflict
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Europe
KW  - First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - America
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - European
KW  - Canary Islands
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Latin America
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-366) and index; pt. 1. Mental horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the imagination. Finding people from other worlds -- Wild men and wanderers -- Images of Asia -- pt. 2. Eastern horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the eastern Atlantic. Innocence and wildness in the Canary Islands, 1341-1400 -- The Canary Islanders, 1341-1496 -- Rights of dominion, 1341-1496 -- Quarrelsome conquerors, 1402-44 -- Gold and slaves, 1444-96 -- pt. 3. Western horizons : the peoples, islands and shores of the western Atlantic. From the Old Canaries to the New Canaries, 1492 -- Taínos and Caribs -- Turtles, shamans and snorting tubes -- Cuba = Cipangu = Japan, 1492 -- La Navidad, 1492-3 -- First news of the New World, 1493 -- Into the Caribbean, 1493-4 -- Misrule in Hispaniola, 1494-6 -- The project unravels, 1497-8 -- Columbus eclipsed, 1498-1506 -- pt. 4. Southern horizons : the peoples and shores of Atlantic South America. Vespucci's tabloid journalism, 1497-1504 -- The land of the Holy Cross, 1500 -- The realm of King Arosca, 1505 -- A compulsory voluntary 'requirement', 1511-20 -- The Renaissance discovery of man
N2  - "Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eye-witness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the inhabitants of the Atlantic World, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable and scrupulous, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest of the world."--Jacket
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007024246-b.html
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