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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 909 EAN: 9780812214123 Edition: 2 Reprint ISBN: 0812214129 Label: University of Pennsylvania Press Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 300 Publication Date: December 19, 1987 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Studio: University of Pennsylvania Press Related Items:
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 Rating: - Columbus as a logical outcomeIt is hard to use, in the same sentence, logic and a man who believed both in the basic sphericity of the earth and the existence of the Earthly Paradise. But, all hero-villain dichotomies aside, we shall always be confronted with the fact that it was Columbus who started the inexorable process that produced America as we know it, to the exclusion of all who may have preceded him to these shores. I doubt seriously that, even today, you can find any book in English containing as much of ... Read More 
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