...To his final days, Christopher Columbus clung to an image of a planet without the Americas or the Pacific Ocean. This chapter shows that insisting on the one best map or theory weakens our thinking. Simplifying assumptions and their pernicious reification are identified for three kinds of maps...

...Christopher Columbus's discovery of America in 1492 was part of a general process of European expansion into the Atlantic. Most of the discoverers and conquerors who followed in the footsteps of Columbus were driven by the quest for material wealth, the same goal of Portugal's overseas expansion...

...This chapter focuses on the emergence of globalization as an economic and political system in the Caribbean. It revisits the time when Christopher Columbus almost stumbled upon the islands of the Caribbean on his way to Asia in 1492 and the chain reaction that he accidentally set in motion...

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...This chapter introduces the late Renaissance preoccupation with the interplay between God's will and earthly power by focusing on three issues. Envisioning the law as pathways of rightful conduct where Providence and human initiative intersected, colonizers viewed Christopher Columbus's discovery...

... contends that, contrary to his claim made on October 10, 1492 that he had reached the Indies, Christopher Columbus had not yet “discovered” the continent that would become the Americas. The history of the conquest, of the colony and its immense transatlantic trade, of populism and neoliberalism, shows...

...This chapter covers the subject of the discovery of America, including the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. It looks at the theological, scientific, and philosophical debates surrounding the early encounters between Europeans and the indigenous inhabitants, as well...

...In 1992, on the five hundredth anniversary of the world-changing voyage of Christopher Columbus, Ridley Scott created a movie that showed the personal side of the explorer. Extensive research was poured into the project as well as insights from Columbus’s diary, which was inherited by his son...

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...2015 ‘What is (and is not) exploration?’ discusses what it means to explore and be an explorer by considering explorations and discoveries through history by Leif Eiriksson, Christopher Columbus, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, Henry Morton Stanley, Richard Burton, John...

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.... In the 1490s, the journeys of Christopher Columbus to the Caribbean and North and South America opened up mineral-rich and fertile lands on which European countries planted their flags and the Christian cross. More than 12 million Africans boarded the ships, but nearly 2 million died during the Middle Passage...

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... and Newton; second, the circumnavigation of the planet and the European discovery of the Americas, hermetically figured by Magellan (who did not complete his voyage, which ended in 1522) and Christopher Columbus. In subsequent imaginaries, the two events are readily conjoined. On a spherical surface...

...While sailing back to Spain in December 1492, the flagship Santa Maria ran into the white coral reefs facing the coast of Hispaniola. Lacking space in the two remaining caravels of his fleet, Christopher Columbus left behind the crew of the wrecked ship. A few months later, when he...

... of the Atlantic, and they led all others in the race to Asia around the coast of Africa. Indeed, it was probably in recognition of the fact that Portuguese navigators had such a head start on him that Christopher Columbus solicited sponsorship for his ambition to reach Asia by sailing westwards into the Atlantic...

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...This chapter focuses on the difficulties encountered by Christopher Columbus in providing the reliable sources of gold that he had promised to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, his royal sponsors. Columbus describes only projected earnings and uses symbols to represent wealth and monetary value...

...This chapter discusses Jamaica's long history as a colony. It began in 1494 when Christopher Columbus disembarked on the island, encountered the indigenous peoples, and proclaimed it the property of Spain. The Spanish presence led to a decline in the population of the native peoples...