THE DISCOVERY OF MANKIND: ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS IN THE AGE OF COLUMBUS
Published by Yale University Press. 2008
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Book Club Edition. Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable, and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world. Dark grey paper boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w plates. xxvi and 379 pages including index.
Light concave reading crease to spine. Slight lean to spine. Text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustswrapper is lightly edge-worn and scuffed.
ISBN: 9780300125825
Stock no. 1831326
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- EXPLORATION
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- SOCIAL HISTORY
