Sinking Columbus : contested history, cultural politics, and mythmaking during the quincentenary / Stephen J. Summerhill and John Alexander Williams.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Summerhill, Stephen J., 1944-
Other Authors: Williams, John Alexander, 1938-
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2000], ©2000.
Subjects:
Columbus Quincentenary, 1992-1993.
Columbus, Christopher.
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish > Historiography.
Physical Description:xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Christopher Columbus, the chicken, and the egg
  • Sailing over the edge: the U.S. quincentenary jubilee commission
  • Cities of gold
  • Ethnos, history, and myth
  • The quincentenary as excess: the case of Spain
  • The same and the other
  • The same and the other: Italy and Latin America
  • Conclusion: weeds of change.