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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
David Abulafia
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| #2304591 in Books | 2008-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.45 x6.52 x9.28l,1.79 | File type: PDF | 408 pages||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent account of European encounters with the wider world|By Diatonic|This is a fine book, by a reknown historian of Cambridge University. His account of Europe's first encounters with the wider world is extremely well done and distinguished by its good sense. (He eschews the nonsense that is fashionable in Portugal about "secret voyages", etc.). His wide and deep knowledge||
"Age-old exposure to the Bible and the classics left Mediterranean observers poorly prepared to interpret the societies they encountered from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries in the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Abulafia painst
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 line...
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