Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism Volume 11

Author/Contributor(s):	Rabasa, Jose
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Date:	02/15/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.