| Testimonies from the Columbian Lawsuits (RC 8) (Repertorium Columbianum) |  | Creator: W.D. Phillips Jr.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3114446
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 506
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 6.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 2503510299
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9782503510293
ASIN: 2503510299
Publication Date: May 1, 2000
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The story of the first stage of Europe's expansion inot the Americas usually focuses on the personal actions of Christopher Columbus. Nevertheless, the enterprise of the Indies was a collective endeavour. Between Columbus's first voyage in 1492 and 1504 when he returned to Spain for the last time, thousands had sailed from Spain to the Americas. Their voices have largely been forgotten, but they have not been lost. The testimony those witnesses made, duly recorded and preserved, is the focus of this volume. The material has been available in the Spanish archives since the sixteenth century. Some historians used it in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and begining in the 1960s a group of Spanish scholars led by Antonio Muro Orejón published a definitive Spanish-language version. That is the basis of this edition, the first and only English-langauge version available. The dispositions of the individual witnesses provide evidence that the traditional picture of Columbus needs re-examination. This volume offers fascinating and unfamiliar information about the first voyages.
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