Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth by Hans Koning
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Overview: Columbus: His Enterprise was written and published fifteen years ago. Miraculously, it has stayed in print ever since (with slowly increasing sales). I write “miraculously” because books in the United States that see the light of day without ads or other flourishes rarely live more than a few months. Miraculously also because during all those years I have not often found sympathy or even comprehension for its point of view, its discovery that Columbus was neither a wise but misunderstood explorer nor even a brave adventurer, but (quoting my own book) “a man greedy in large and in small ways, cruel in petty things and on a continental scale.” More often than not, I saw people being surprised at the suggestion that the traditional image of Columbus, as taught in our schools, was a political one, based on our smug and biased reading of the past.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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