num_pages: 296
description: 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.
language: English
title: Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (Volume 11) (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory
titlecomplete: Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (Volume 11) (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory (Paperback))
genres: History
ratings_count: 4
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press