The Discovery of Mankind
Subtitle: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780300125825
Subjects: Archaeology by period / region; Geographical discovery & exploration; History; History - General History; History: World; Atlantic Ocean; North American; World - General; History / World; General
Description: "Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eye-witness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the inhabitants of the Atlantic World, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable and scrupulous, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest of the world."--Jacket.