The tropics of empire why Columbus sailed south to the Indies
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press
cop. 2008
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| Colección: | Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010200129708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies
- Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic encounter
- Columbus and the open geography of the ancients
- The meaning of India in pre-Columbian 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
