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The tropics of empire why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.

Author/creator	Wey Gómez, Nicolás
Other author	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
Description	xxiv, 592 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subjects	Columbus, Christopher--Knowledge and learning. Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280--Knowledge and learning. Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?--Knowledge and learning. Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566--Knowledge and learning. Geography, Medieval. Discoveries in geography--15th century. Navigation--History. America--Discovery and exploration. --Spanish. Tropics--Geography. Europe--Intellectual life. --15th century.

Series	Transformations Transformations (M.I.T. Press) ^A468418
Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2007020947
ISBN	9780262232647 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0262232642 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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