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1492 and All that
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Robert Royal
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: University Press of America

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The 500th anniversary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus spurred a host of politically motivated groups and organizations to attempt to recast the history of
America in 1492
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-02-02 - Publisher: Vintage

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When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Edward G. Gray
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, e
1492
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Newton Frohlich
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-11 - Publisher: Leisure Books

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The spellbinding story of the year that changed our world forever. A novel that captures the passion, glory, and spectacle of the struggle for power and wealth
If You Were There in 1492
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Barbara Brenner
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-09 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Chock-full of little-known facts and written with you-are-there immediacy, this volume explores everyday life in Spain at the end of the 15th century.