In Inventing America, José Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world.
| ISBN: | 9780806125398 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 1994 |
| Author: | Jose Rabasa |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas European history |
In Inventing America, José Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world.
Inventing America features in the following genres: History of the Americas, European history
Inventing America is available in Paperback
Inventing America was written by Jose Rabasa and published by University of Oklahoma Press
Inventing America has 296 pages