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De Lamar Jensen, ed.
The Expansion of Europe: Motives, Methods, and Meanings.
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1967.
Problems in European Civilization series.
[No ISBN].
Paperback, perfect bound.
161x233x9mm.
xiv,123pp.
English.
Fair condition: covers worn, paper yellowed; the top edge has been trimmed badly, resulting in some ripping to some of the page tops - on at least three sheets there are rips extending down into the text.This item £4.00
213g.
Contents:
Toynbee, Stimulus & response;
Gilmore, Creative surge of Latin Christendom;
Mattingly, Lure of Prester John;
O'Gorman, Invention of America;
Bataillon, O'Gorman's "idea" of the discovery;
Arciniegas, Vespucci & the New World;
Washburn, Meaning of "discovery" in the 15th & 16th centuries;
Quinn, English discovery of America;
Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies;
Motolinía, Letter to the Emperor Charles V;
Pidal, Las Casas & the Black Legend;
Hanke, Pidal versus Las Casas;
Madariaga, The Mita & Indian enslavement;
Hanke, Spanish struggle for justice;
Zavala, America & the wider world;
Webb, The great frontier;
Barraclough, Europe & the wider world.
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