TY - BOOK ID - 2445060 TI - Columbus and the Ends of the Earth : Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology PY - 1992 SN - 0520911334 0585117101 9780520911338 9780585117102 0520074424 9780520074422 PB - Berkeley, California : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Prophecy KW - Americas - General KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - Christianity. KW - Christianity KW - Columbus, Christopher. KW - America KW - Europe KW - Discovery and exploration. KW - Territorial expansion. KW - Prophecy (Christianity) KW - Colomb, Christophe KW - Colombus, Christophorus KW - Columbus, Christoffel KW - Columbus, Christopher KW - Colón, Cristóbal KW - Kolumbus, Christoph KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Colombo, Cristoforo KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Territorial expansion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2445060 AB - Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kadir's timely review of the founding doctrines of empire. The language of prophecy and divine predestination fills the pronouncements of those who ventured across the Atlantic. The effects of such language and their implications for current theoretical debates about colonialism and decolonization are legion. Kadir suggests that in this supposedly postcolonial era, richer nations and the privileged still manipulate the rhetoric of conquest to justify and serve their own worldly ends. For colonized peoples who live today at the "ends of the earth," the age of exploitation may be no different from the age of exploration. ER -