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Wadsworth James E - Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents - 9781474276832 - V9781474276832
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Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents

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Description for Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents Hardback. Editor(s): Wadsworth, James E. Num Pages: 176 pages, 15 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1K; 3H; HBJK; HBLH; HBTM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left very different accounts, as recorded in those trial records. Their competing voices have long been silenced by the deafening crescendo of Columbus's own narrative-a narrative riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies that beg to be explained. This documentary history allows the reader to encounter the founding documents of the Columbus story as well as the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474276832
SKU
V9781474276832
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About Wadsworth James E
James E. Wadsworth is Professor of History at Stonehill College, USA. He is the author of Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil (2007) and In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araujo, A Brazilian Comissario in the Age of Inquisitional Decline (2013).

Reviews for Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents
Few events in human history are as widely known yet as poorly understood as Columbus's Atlantic crossing of 1492. This book-length focus on that voyage is thus an important and welcome gift to instructors, students, and curious readers. Through his careful selection and expert packaging of revealing documents, James Wadsworth gently guides us into seeing 1492 from multiple ... Read more

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