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A page from El Libro de los Epítomes with corrections and marginal notes. The Libro de los Epítomes (The Book of Epitomes) is a catalogue summarising part of the library of around 15–20,000 books which Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: Fernando Colón) assembled in the early sixteenth-century in an effort to create a library of every book in the world.
Columbus had his associates prepare summaries of each book in his collection and devised a hieroglyphic blueprint of his library. [12] In 2013, history professor Guy Lazure serendipitously stumbled upon the massive catalog, known as the Libro de los Epítomes , long thought lost and consisting of 973 leaves of paper, while conducting unrelated ...
Stannard begins with a description of the cultural and biological diversity in the Americas prior to contact in 1492. The book surveys the history of European colonization in the Americas, for approximately 400 years, from the first Spanish assaults in the Caribbean in the 1490s to the Wounded Knee Massacre in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America have suffered ...
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public's understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine.
Woodcut from 1494 Basel edition of Columbus's letter. Notice the depiction of the oar-driven galley in the foreground – an early European interpretation of the Indian canoe, as per Columbus's description. [13] Columbus's physical descriptions are brief, noting only that the natives have straight hair and "nor are they black like those in Guinea".
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other is a book by Tzvetan Todorov first published in 1982, detailing Spanish colonials' contact with natives upon the discovery of the Americas. Todorov analyzes texts and arguments from Spanish figures such as Pedro de Valdivia and Francisco de Vitoria. Todorov argues that the latter "demolishes ...
John Kerrigan of The Times Literary Supplement chose the book as his 2018 Book of the Year, describing its prose as "lucid" and scope as "wide-ranging". [20] In a positive review for The Observer , Afua Hirsch praised the "many personal passages" of the book and the author's "disruptive, aggressive intellect". [ 9 ]
In the United Kingdom, the book is published by Granta Books and is titled 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. The book was adapted for younger readers by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Seven Stories Press in 2015 as 1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization. [5]