Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
Language: English
Published by Monthly Review Press, 1992
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- Title
- Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
- Author
- Hans Koning
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0853458251
- ISBN 13
- 9780853458258
The true history of Christopher Columbus and his fateful voyage
In this beautifully written revisionist biography, accessible to people of all ages, Hans Koning gives us the true history of Columbus’ life and voyages. Koning describes how Columbus’ consuming drive to send mountains of gold back to Spain shaped his life, beginning the story with his childhood in Genoa and ending after his return from his fourth and final voyage, an old man in disgrace. He shows how Columbus’ discovery led to the enrichment of the conquerors through the plunder and murder of the native peoples of the Americas.
In an afterword for teachers, Bill Bigelow a high school social studies teacher and the author of several curricula shows how the book can be imaginatively used in the classroom to teach students to read history skeptically.
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