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Explores how Europeans interpreted their encounters with the New World, beginning with Columbus's strategies for coming to terms with the startling unfamiliarity, through the widely held view that the encounter forever altered the course of European history, to the adoption of Native American views of Europe that led to a fierce attack on colonization and imperialism. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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For more than three centuries after Columbus's voyages to America, Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New World affected European sensibilities and intellectual horizons. In this book Anthony Pagden examines some of the varied ways in which Europeans interpreted these encounters with America.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0300052855
- ISBN 13 9780300052855
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