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The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together with the editors' introductions to thematic chapters, encourage educators and students to reflect critically on the development of the field and to explore concepts, approaches, and insights valuable to their own work. The selections are organized in ten chapters that survey the history of the movement, the seminal ideas of founding thinkers and today's practitioners, changing concepts of world historical space and time, comparative methods, environmental history, the "big history" movement, globalization, debates over the meaning of Western power, and ongoing questions about the intellectual premises and assumptions that have shaped the field.

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Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars--questions concerning Columbus's destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas's editorial role, and Columbus's views on the Indians. In doing so she opens up the vast cultural context of the Discovery. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the Discovery, she maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonizing of the New World.

Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Style, Literary. --- Ontdekkingsreizen. --- Historia da america. --- Literarisches Werk. --- Exploration. --- America. --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colón, Cristóbal, --- Columbus, Christopher. --- Colomb, Christophe, --- Colombo, Cristoforo. --- Literary art. --- Style. --- America --- Amérique --- History and criticism. --- Découverte et exploration. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Writing skill. --- Early accounts to 1600 --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- History and criticism --- 1492. --- appropriation. --- authenticity. --- authority. --- cartography. --- christopher columbus. --- colonialism. --- columbus. --- destination. --- discovery of the americas. --- discovery. --- expeditions. --- exploration. --- ferdinand. --- gender. --- ideology. --- indigenous peoples. --- isabela. --- journey. --- las casas. --- latin america. --- latin american history. --- latin american literature and culture series. --- libro copiador. --- literary letters. --- native americans. --- native peoples. --- pilgrimage. --- testimony. --- the crown. --- the new world. --- travel narratives. --- world history.