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Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies

A Brief History with Documents

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Geoffrey Symcox
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  2. Blair Sullivan
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Part of the book series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture (BSHC)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Columbus—The Man, the Voyages, the Legacy

    1. Introduction: Columbus—The Man, the Voyages, the Legacy

      • Geoffrey Symcox, Blair Sullivan
      Pages 1-40

  3. The Documents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Christopher Columbus

      • Geoffrey Symcox, Blair Sullivan
      Pages 43-59

    3. The Four Voyages

      • Geoffrey Symcox, Blair Sullivan
      Pages 60-139

    4. The Spanish Crown, Portugal, and the Papacy

      • Geoffrey Symcox, Blair Sullivan
      Pages 140-154

    5. European Constructions of the New World

      • Geoffrey Symcox, Blair Sullivan
      Pages 155-176

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 177-192
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About this book

In 1492, previously separate worlds collided and began to merge, often painfully, into the world-system in which we live today. Columbus's four Atlantic voyages (1492-1504) helped link Africa, Europe, and the Americas in a conflicted economic and cultural symbiosis. These carefully selected documents describe the voyages and their immediate impact on Europe and the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. Symcox and Sullivan's engaging introduction presents Columbus as neither hero nor villain, but as a significant historical actor who improvised responses to a changed world. Document headnotes provide context for understanding Columbus's voyages within the broader context of fifteenth-century Europe and the policies of the Spanish crown. Maps, illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography invite students to analyze and interpret the documents.

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"Unlike any other collection of documents that I have come across, the Symcox and Sullivan text gives agency to the players and participants while offering a balanced and full examination of the people and events that changed the world forever." - Jim Ross-Nazzal, Montgomery College

About the authors

Geoffrey Symcox is Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles and General Editor of the Repertorium Columbianum. Blair Sullivan is Managing Editor for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at University of California, Los Angeles and Associate Editor of the Repertorium Columbianum.

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