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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 ]
The Book Loft of German Village is an independent bookstore in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1977 and described by the Columbus Business First as "iconic" and a "tourist destination", [ 1 ] the store has also been called "a national treasure" by The New York Times . [ 2 ]
Historians have noted Irving's "active imagination" [3] and called some aspects of his work "fanciful and sentimental". [1] Literary critics have noted that Irving "saw American history as a useful means of establishing patriotism in his readers, and while his language tended to be more general, his avowed intention toward Columbus was thoroughly nationalist". [4]
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".
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The book says Christopher Columbus' "first business venture in the New World consisted of sending four caravels loaded to capacity with 550 Natives back to Europe, to be auctioned off in the markets of the Mediterranean." Hernan Cortes was the largest slave owner in Mexico. Mexican governors and US officials were slave owners or traders.
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 ...
Columbus cut off the legs of native children who tried to run from them. He aided in sex trafficking nine and ten-year-old girls. Moving away from Columbus Day and celebrating Indigenous Peoples ...