tropics of empire
Subtitle: why Columbus sailed south to the Indies
By: by Nicolás Wey-Gómez.
Series: Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262232647
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher -- Knowledge -- Geography; Geography, Medieval; Discoveries in geography -- 15th century; Navigation -- History; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish; Tropics -- Geography; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 15th century
Genres: Geography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why Columbus sailed south to the Indies; title: Machina mundi : the moral authority of place in the early transatlantic colonial encounter; title: Columbus and the open geography of the ancients; title: The meaning of India in precolumbian Europe; title: From place to colonialism in the Aristotelian tradition; title: En la parte del sol : Iberia's invention of the Afro-Indian tropics, 1434-1494; title: Between Cathay and a hot place : reorienting the Asia-America debate; title: The tropics of empire in Columbus's Diario de a bordo.