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The Discovery of Mankind

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Discovery of Mankind

By David Abulafia

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About the book

The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers' experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500, western Europeans struggled to make sense of the existence of the peoples they met. Were they Adam's children, of a common lineage with the peoples of ...Show more

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9780300158212

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Discovery of Mankind

Format

Paperback

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