Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Discovery of MankindCondition: NewEAN: 9780300158212ISBN: 9780300158212Publisher: Yale University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/15/2009Item Height: 227mmItem Length: 144mmItem Weight: 635gAuthor: David AbulafiaLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of ColumbusISBN-10: 0300158211Description: A new and fascinating perspective on the earliest phases of European exploration across the Atlantic Ocean The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers’ experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500, western Europeans struggled to make sense of the existence of the peoples they met. Were they Adam's children, of a common lineage with the peoples of the Old World, or were they a separate creation, the monstrous races of medieval legend? Should they govern themselves? Did they have the right to be free? Did they know God? Could they know God?Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable, and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Discovery of Mankind
Title: The Discovery of Mankind
EAN: 9780300158212
ISBN: 9780300158212
Release Date: 09/15/2009
Release Year: 2009
Subtitle: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
ISBN-10: 0300158211
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
Publication Name: Discovery of Mankind : Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Europe / Spain & Portugal, Adventurers & Explorers, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World, Europe / General, Expeditions & Discoveries
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Subject Area: Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: David Abulafia
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback