An edition of The tropics of empire (2008)

The tropics of empire

why Columbus sailed south to the Indies

The tropics of empire
Nicolás Wey-Gómez, Nicolás ...
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An edition of The tropics of empire (2008)

The tropics of empire

why Columbus sailed south to the Indies

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MIT Press
Language
English

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Table of Contents

Why Columbus sailed south to the Indies
Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic colonial encounter
Columbus and the open geography of the ancients
The meaning of India in precolumbian 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 de a bordo.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology
Genre
Geography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
980/.013092
Library of Congress
E112 .W48 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17944531M
ISBN 13
9780262232647
LCCN
2007020947
LibraryThing
7764295
Goodreads
3639861

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OL12287779W

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