Gomez Nicolas Wey:
The Tropics Of Empire
Why Columbus Sailed South To The Indies
Mit Press Ltd (United States), 2008
Hardback, 584 pages
Size: 229x203 mm
ISBN: 9780262232647
ISBN-10: 0262232642
List price: £31.95
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The Tropics Of Empire
Investigates the complicated nexus between place and colonialism in Columbus' invention of the American tropics. This book tells the story of a culture intent on remaining the moral center of an expanding geography that was slowly relegating Europe to the northern fringe of the globe.

