Inventing America
| Author | : José Rabasa |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| ISBN-10 | : 080612539X |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780806125398 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (398 Downloads) |
Download or read book Inventing America written by José Rabasa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inventing America, José Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world.