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Columbus's Outpost among the Ta?nos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498 by Jose Maria Cruxent, Kathleen Deagan (Paperback, 2013)

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In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was in ruins. It remains important, however, as the first site of European settlement in America and the first place of sustained interaction between Europeans and the indigenous Tainos. Kathleen Deagan and Jose Maria Cruxent now tell the story of this historic enterprise. Drawing on their ten-year archaeological investigation of the site of La Isabela, along with research into Columbus-era documents, they contrast Spanish expectations of America with the actual events and living conditions at America?s first European town. Deagan and Cruxent argue that La Isabela failed not because Columbus was a poor planner but because his vision of America was grounded in European experience and could not be sustained in the face of the realities of American life. Explaining that the original Spanish economic and social frameworks for colonization had to be altered in America in response to the American landscape and the non-elite Spanish and Taino people who occupied it, they shed light on larger questions of American colonialism and the development of Euro-American cultural identity.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300197846
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148922735

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Columbus's Outpost Among the Ta?Nos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, History
Type
Textbook
Author
Jose Maria Cruxent, Kathleen Deagan
Format
Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
238 mm
Item Weight
510 g
Item Width
167 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Kathleen Deagan, Jose Maria Cruxent

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