Christopher Columbus and the Genesis of New World Colonialism, 1493–96
An Historical Geography of his Second Voyage
Series: Routledge Research in Historical Geography;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 3 September 2025
- ISBN 9781041005322
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 730 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 Illustrations, black & white; 25 Halftones, black & white 692
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Short description:
This book explores the role of geography’s five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombus’s second voyage.
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This book explores the role of geography’s five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombus’s second voyage. It explores the impacting events that led to deteriorating relations between Columbus, the Spanish settlers (adventurers), and the indigenous Taíno and Carib people, creating a social paradigm of confusion, displacement, destruction, and the genesis of New World Colonization.
Continuing the precious, innovative reading of the Colombian experience of the previous two books, Al Rocca dedicates himself here to the critical analysis of the Second Voyage, a voyage that at the beginning involved more than a thousand Spaniards who had enlisted, but also Columbus had imagined easy and decisive, and that instead upon arrival in the Nuovo Mondo (New World) had revealed itself to be full of pitfalls and obstacles.
What distinguishes this book from others that deal with the same subject is the fact that, in addition to telling the story of the voyage clearly and, as usual, with the help of beautiful geographical maps, it reconstructs the geographical environment, both physical and human, through the eyes of Columbus: an environment that, with the passing of time, reveals itself to be increasingly different from his expectations and difficult to understand and interpret.
Professor Ilaria Caraci
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0.Introduction. Part One – First Voyage of Christopher Columbus. 1.Christopher Columbus’s Geographic Realignment. 2.Triumphant Return and Royal Accolades. 3.King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela’s Colonization Plan. 4.The Voyage Begins. Part Two - Return to Hispaniola. 5.The Caribs of Guadeloupe and St. Croix. 6.Return to La Navidad. 7.Settling La Isabela. 8.Search for Cibao: Inland Colonization Begins. 9.The Memorial (Report) of Columbus to the Spanish monarchs. Part Three - Quest for Gold and Searching for the Mainland. 10.A Geography of Confusion: Where is Cathay and India? Part Four - Conquest and Exploitation. 11.Rebellion. 12.Colonial Pacification and Expansion.
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