The expansion of Europe : motives, methods, and meanings / edited with an introduction by De Lamar Jensen.

Title
  1. The expansion of Europe : motives, methods, and meanings / edited with an introduction by De Lamar Jensen.
Published by
  1. Boston, Heath [1967]
Author
  1. Jensen, De Lamar, 1925-

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Description
  1. xiv, 123 p.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Problems in European civilization
Uniform title
  1. Problems in European civilization
Subject
  1. 1492-1648
  2. Europe > History > 1492-1648
  3. America > Discovery and exploration
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Stimulus and response / Arnold J. Toynbee -- The creative surge of Latin Christendom / Myron P. Gilmore -- The lure of Prester John / Garrett Mattingly -- The invention of America / Edmundo O'Gorman -- O'Gorman's "idea" of the discovery / Marcel Bataillon -- Amerigo Vespucci and the New World / Germán Arciniegas -- The meaning of "discovery" in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- The English discovery of America / David B. Quinn -- The destruction of the Indies / Bartolomé de la Casas -- Letter to the emperor Charles V / Toribio de Motolinía -- Las Casas and the black legend / Ramón Menéndez Pidal -- Menéndez Pidal versus Las casas / Lewis Hanke -- The Mita and Indian enslavement / Salvador de Madariaga -- The Spanish struggle for justice / Lewis Hanke -- America and the wider world / Silvio Zavala -- The great frontier / Walter Prescott Webb -- Europe and the wider world / Geoffrey Barraclough.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 117-123.
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