Inventing America(English, Paperback, Rabasa Jose)

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Inventing America(English, Paperback, Rabasa Jose) is written by Rabasa Jose and published by University of Oklahoma Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080612539X (ISBN 10) and 9780806125398 (ISBN 13).

In Inventing America, Jose Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world.