The Meeting of Two Worlds

Europe and the Americas

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7523091
AutoresBruce B Solnick (University at Albany, State University of New York, autor correspondente), Bruce Solnick (State University of New York, Albany), Warwick Bray
Ano1995
Volume75
Fascículo3
Páginas464-465
Data de publicação1995-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182168-75.3.464
OpenAlexW2315736686
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19

Heroic endeavour or diaster of hemispheric proportions? What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations. This volume brings together 11 scholars - from both sides of the Atantic and from the disciplines of history, archaeology, anthropology, geography and biology - to discuss the nature of the European conquest and its consequences. A major them is the complex process by which Europeans and Amerindians adapted to create new criollo cultures which are distinctively American: the successess and failures of this process are evident in Latin America today. The multidisciplinary scope of this volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the enormous changes that followed Columbus' expedition

Environmental ethics · Geography · Political science · European Cultural and National Identity · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy