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The tropics of empire: why Columbus sailed south to the Indies

Nicolás Wey Gómez
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  • Frontmatter
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  • List of Figures (page xi)
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  • Preface (page xiii)
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  • Acknowledgments (page xvii)
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  • Introduction: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (page 1)
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  • 1 Machina Mundi: The Moral Authority of Place in the Early Transatlantic Encounter (page 59)
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  • 2 Columbus and the Open Geography of the Ancients (page 107)
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  • 3 The Meaning of India in Pre-Columbian Europe (page 159)
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  • 4 From Place to Colonialism in the Aristotelian Tradition (page 229)
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  • 5 En la Parte del Sol: Iberia's Invention of the Afro-Indian Tropics, 1434-1494 (page 293)
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  • 6 Between Cathay and a Hot Place: Reorienting the Asia-America Debate (page 335)
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  • 7 The Tropics of Empire in Columbus's Diario (page 393)
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  • Notes (page 435)
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  • Bibliography (page 535)
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  • Index (page 569)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MLN* 124.2 (March. 2009): 538-541 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/263384
TA 65.4 (April. 2009): 619-620 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/261128
JIH 41.2 (Autumn. 2010): 290-291 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/391023
MLN* 123.5 (Dec. 2008): 1227-1228 http://www.jstor.org/stable/29734471
ISIS 100.2 (June. 2009): 392-393 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/605230
AHR 114.3 (Jun. 2009): 703-705 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30223934
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Published: c2008
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780262232647 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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