Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise to the Indies
Scholarship of the Last Quarter Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3326470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D A West (corresponding author), Delno West |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 254 |
| Publication date | 1992-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2947272 |
| OpenAlex | W2313898419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
C HRISTOPHER Columbus did not discover a new world, nor did he ever set foot on the North American continent. Rather, he established continuous contact between two continents, each with major populations.' But he became a national hero for the United States, and, as such, he has frequently been placed on the same level with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by Americans who prefer mythology to facts. Early in our history, he became a unifying symbol to the struggling English colonies when Puritan preachers began to use his life as an exemplum of the developing American spirit. On the eve of the American Revolution, poems, songs, sermons, and polemic essays in which Columbus was idealized as the discoverer of a new land for a new people flowed from New England. Such veneration culminated in a movement to name the nation Columbia. In I792, in a concerted effort to focus attention on the new nation's glorious past and future, the first Columbian celebrations
Archaeology · Ethnology · Political science · Quarter (Canadian coin · Scholarship · West indies · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Latin American history and culture · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2006 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |