Tennessee's

Tennessee's

Author: Carole Marsh

Publisher: Carole Marsh Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0793320682

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Discovering Christopher Columbus

Discovering Christopher Columbus

Author: Kathy Pelta

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780822548997

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A biography of Christopher Columbus with emphasis on how historians have worked and are still working to find out the truth about his life and discoveries.


The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas

The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas

Author: Elise Bartosik-Velez

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0826503489

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Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, a fundamental recasting of Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in imperial constructs. Bartosik-Velez seeks to explain the meaning of Christopher Columbus throughout the so-called New World, first in the British American colonies and the United States, as well as in Spanish America, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She argues that during the pre- and post-revolutionary periods, New World societies commonly imagined themselves as legitimate and powerful independent political entities by comparing themselves to the classical empires of Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had been construed as a figure of empire for centuries, fit perfectly into that framework. By adopting him as a national symbol, New World nationalists appeal to Old World notions of empire.


The Worlds of Christopher Columbus

The Worlds of Christopher Columbus

Author: William D. Phillips

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780521446525

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When Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was largely isolated from the rest of the Old World - Africa and Asia - and ignorant of the existence of the world of the Western Hemisphere. The voyages of Christopher Columbus opened a period of European exploration and empire building that breached the boundaries of those isolated worlds and changed the course of human history. This book describes the life and times of Christopher Columbus on the 500th aniversary of his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Since ancient times, Europeans had dreamed of discovering new routes to the untold riches of Asia and the Far East, what set Columbus apart from these explorers was his single-minded dedication to finding official support to make that dream a reality. More than a simple description of the man, this new book places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history. Columbus's story is not just the story of one man's rise and fall. Seen in its broader context, his life becomes a prism reflecting the broad range of human experience for the past five hundred years. Respected historians of medieval Spain and early America, the authors examine Columbus's quest for funds, first in Portugal and then in Spain, where he finally won royal backing for his scheme. Through his successful voyage in 1492 and three subsequent journeys to the new world Columbus reached the pinnacle of fame and wealth, and yet he eventually lost royal support through his own failings. William and Carla Rahn Phillips discuss the reasons for this fall and describe the empire created by the Spaniards in the lands across the ocean, even though neither they, nor anyone else in Europe, know precisely where or what those lands were. In examining the birth of a new world, this book reveals much about the times that produced these intrepid explorers.


America in the Time of Columbus

America in the Time of Columbus

Author: Sally Senzell Isaacs

Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 1998-11-21

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781575729336

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Uses the life of Christopher Columbus as a backdrop to present the history of people in America from the time the Native Americans arrived until 1585.


A Book about Christopher Columbus

A Book about Christopher Columbus

Author: Ruth Belov Gross

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9780590098915

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With the support of the Queen of Spain, Christopher Columbus and his three ships set out into the unknown to find a shorter sea route to the Indies.