Did Christopher Columbus Really Discover America?

Did Christopher Columbus Really Discover America?
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Publisher : Sterling Children's Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1454912596
ISBN-13 : 9781454912590
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Did Christopher Columbus Really Discover America? by : Emma Carlson Berne

Why did Columbus want to reach the New World--and was he the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean? What was life like on one of his ships? What did America look like before Columbus arrived? How did Columbus treat the native people? The engaging story of Columbus's voyage and the effect his arrival had on the native people will fascinate kids.

The Nautical Puzzle Book

The Nautical Puzzle Book
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Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781529322828
ISBN-13 : 1529322820
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nautical Puzzle Book by : The National Maritime Museum

__________ Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue! __________ Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean? The Nautical Puzzle Book is packed to the brim with over 100 puzzles inspired by the National Maritime Museum's objects and their stories. Inside this book you'll find a fiendish mix of word games, codewords, trivia, picture puzzles, word scrambles, anagrams, crosswords and much more. It's a chance to learn all about epic explorers, history makers, record breakers, myths, legends, seafaring traditions and life at sea. By the time you reach the end you'll have navigated centuries of history, crossed thousands of miles of ocean, and made countless discoveries - so batten down the hatches and set sail! __________ The perfect gift for veteran seafarers and armchair navigators alike. Find out if you're worthy of captaincy or destined to be a deck hand in this beautiful and addictive puzzle book! If you're bored of Zoom Quizzes, then this is the book for all the family.

Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage

Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage
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Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : 9354483208
ISBN-13 : 9789354483202
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage by : Christopher Columbus

Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

The Native Population of the Americas in 1492

The Native Population of the Americas in 1492
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0299134342
ISBN-13 : 9780299134341
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 by : William M. Denevan

William M. Denevan writes that, "The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650. In this collection of essays, historians, anthropologists, and geographers discuss the discrepancies in the population estimates and the evidence for the post-European decline. Woodrow Borah, Angel Rosenblat, William T. Sanders, and others touch on such topics as the Indian slave trade, diseases, military action, and the disruption of the social systems of the native peoples. Offering varying points of view, the contributors critically analyze major hemispheric and regional data and estimates for pre- and post-European contact. This revised edition features a new introduction by Denevan reviewing recent literature and providing a new hemispheric estimate of 54 million, a foreword by W. George Lovell of Queen's University, and a comprehensive updating of the already extensive bibliography. Research in this subject is accelerating, with contributions from many disciplines. The discussions and essays presented here can serve both as an overview of past estimates, conflicts, and methods and as indicators of new approaches and perspectives to this timely subject.

Who was First?

Who was First?
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 0618663916
ISBN-13 : 9780618663910
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Who was First? by : Russell Freedman

Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.

1493

1493
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Publisher : Knopf
Total Pages : 561
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ISBN-10 : 9780307265722
ISBN-13 : 0307265722
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis 1493 by : Charles C. Mann

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.

Four Voyages to the New World

Four Voyages to the New World
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Publisher : New York : Corinth Books
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UTEXAS:059173018329587
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Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Four Voyages to the New World by : Christopher Columbus

First published in 1847 under title: Select letters of Christopher Columbus. The letters are in the original Spanish and in English translation.

The Book of Prophecies

The Book of Prophecies
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 435
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ISBN-10 : 9781592446483
ISBN-13 : 1592446485
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Prophecies by : Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus returned to Europe in the final days of 1500, ending his third voyage to the Indies not in triumph but in chains. Seeking to justify his actions and protect his rights, he began to compile biblical texts and excerpts from patristic writings and medieval theology in a manuscript known as the Book of Prophecies. This unprecedented collection was designed to support his vision of the discovery of the Indies as an important event in the process of human salvation - a first step toward the liberation of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim domination. This work is part of a twelve-volume series produced by U.C.L.A.'s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies which involved the collaboration of some forty scholars over the course of fourteen years. In this volume of the series, Roberto Rusconi has written a complete historical introduction to the Book of Prophecies, describing the manuscript's history and analyzing its principal themes. His edition of the documents, the only modern one, includes a complete critical apparatus and detailed commentary, while the facing-page English translations allow Columbus's work to be appreciated by the general public and scholars alike.

Neither Settler nor Native

Neither Settler nor Native
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780674987326
ISBN-13 : 0674987322
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Neither Settler nor Native by : Mahmood Mamdani

Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe—from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan—the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in North America, where genocide and internment on reservations created both a permanent native underclass and the physical and ideological spaces in which new immigrant identities crystallized as a settler nation. In Europe, this template would be used by the Nazis to address the Jewish Question, and after the fall of the Third Reich, by the Allies to redraw the boundaries of Eastern Europe’s nation-states, cleansing them of their minorities. After Nuremberg the template was used to preserve the idea of the Jews as a separate nation. By establishing Israel through the minoritization of Palestinian Arabs, Zionist settlers followed the North American example. The result has been another cycle of violence. Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this historical process. Mamdani rejects the “criminal” solution attempted at Nuremberg, which held individual perpetrators responsible without questioning Nazism as a political project and thus the violence of the nation-state itself. Instead, political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice for perpetrators but a rethinking of the political community for all survivors—victims, perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries—based on common residence and the commitment to build a common future without the permanent political identities of settler and native. Mamdani points to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as an unfinished project, seeking a state without a nation.