The Discovery of America & other myths : a new world reader / Thomas Christensen and Carol Christensen, editors - San Francisco : Chronicle Books , c1992 - 256 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.

Includes biographical references and index.

Did the arrival of Europeans five centuries ago bring the benefits of western Civilization to a New World of barbarians, or did it bring death, slavery, and teror to long-established cultures? This controversial anthology brings together historical texts and contemporary fiction and essays that re-explore the conquest of the Americas and reveal issues that are still burning in the literature and imagination of the hemisphere.


English

9780811801867


Columbus, Christopher (, 1451-1506) ---Influence


Indians---First contact with Europeans


America---Discovery and exploration---Spanish

E111 / .D63 1992

970.015 DIS