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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Inventing America
• Subtitle: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism
• Author: Jose Rabasa
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780806125398
• ISBN: 080612539X
• ID: 11524440
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Weight: 388 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 214 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 1994

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