Stripped Assets: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Discovery of Mankind
David Abulafia considers Columbus’ first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, and shows how they challenged European preconceptions about what it meant to be human.
In the age of the Renaissance, roughly between the mid-fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, western Europeans rediscovered aspects of the Classical past that stimulated radical new ideas about
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