Columbus Didnt Discover America

Author : Janey Levy
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1538237458
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbus Didn't Discover America written by Janey Levy and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's something many Americans are certain is a solid fact: Columbus discovered America. While he is not with us to prove or disprove this fact, we now know that Columbus just wasn't the guy. First, Columbus never landed on the North American mainland. Second, how can someone "discover" a place that's already home to millions of people? In this lively and engaging book, readers will uncover the truth behind many myths about explorers in the Americas. Accessible text addresses important elementary social studies topics. Vivid images enliven the design, while captions, fact boxes, and a graphic organizer enrich the main content.

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674987322
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neither Settler nor Native written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe—from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan—the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in North America, where genocide and internment on reservations created both a permanent native underclass and the physical and ideological spaces in which new immigrant identities crystallized as a settler nation. In Europe, this template would be used by the Nazis to address the Jewish Question, and after the fall of the Third Reich, by the Allies to redraw the boundaries of Eastern Europe’s nation-states, cleansing them of their minorities. After Nuremberg the template was used to preserve the idea of the Jews as a separate nation. By establishing Israel through the minoritization of Palestinian Arabs, Zionist settlers followed the North American example. The result has been another cycle of violence. Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this historical process. Mamdani rejects the “criminal” solution attempted at Nuremberg, which held individual perpetrators responsible without questioning Nazism as a political project and thus the violence of the nation-state itself. Instead, political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice for perpetrators but a rethinking of the political community for all survivors—victims, perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries—based on common residence and the commitment to build a common future without the permanent political identities of settler and native. Mamdani points to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as an unfinished project, seeking a state without a nation.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William M. Denevan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299134341
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 written by William M. Denevan and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992-03-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William M. Denevan writes that, "The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650. In this collection of essays, historians, anthropologists, and geographers discuss the discrepancies in the population estimates and the evidence for the post-European decline. Woodrow Borah, Angel Rosenblat, William T. Sanders, and others touch on such topics as the Indian slave trade, diseases, military action, and the disruption of the social systems of the native peoples. Offering varying points of view, the contributors critically analyze major hemispheric and regional data and estimates for pre- and post-European contact. This revised edition features a new introduction by Denevan reviewing recent literature and providing a new hemispheric estimate of 54 million, a foreword by W. George Lovell of Queen's University, and a comprehensive updating of the already extensive bibliography. Research in this subject is accelerating, with contributions from many disciplines. The discussions and essays presented here can serve both as an overview of past estimates, conflicts, and methods and as indicators of new approaches and perspectives to this timely subject.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : New York : Corinth Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Voyages to the New World written by Christopher Columbus and published by New York : Corinth Books. This book was released on 1961 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1847 under title: Select letters of Christopher Columbus. The letters are in the original Spanish and in English translation.

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307265722
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1493 written by Charles C. Mann and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618663910
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who was First? written by Russell Freedman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.

Author : Various
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538243374
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exposed! More Myths about American History (Set) written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everything people think they know about American history is true. In fact, some decidedly false notions are repeated and passed on again and again until people think they're facts. For example, slavery was found in more areas of the United States than the South during the Civil War, and the Statue of Liberty wasn't created to welcome immigrants. This must-have series, a continuation of our popular collection, highlights significant topics in the elementary social studies curriculum through the lens of shattering some long-believed myths. Readers will love passing on actual historical facts to family and friends. Features include: Graphic organizers, fact boxes, and eye-catching images enhance the attractive design. Comprehending details of historical texts is a standard of the English Language Arts Common Core. Each theme was selected for curricular importance as well as appeal to readers.

Author : The National Maritime Museum
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529322820
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nautical Puzzle Book written by The National Maritime Museum and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: __________ Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue! __________ Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean? The Nautical Puzzle Book is packed to the brim with over 100 puzzles inspired by the National Maritime Museum's objects and their stories. Inside this book you'll find a fiendish mix of word games, codewords, trivia, picture puzzles, word scrambles, anagrams, crosswords and much more. It's a chance to learn all about epic explorers, history makers, record breakers, myths, legends, seafaring traditions and life at sea. By the time you reach the end you'll have navigated centuries of history, crossed thousands of miles of ocean, and made countless discoveries - so batten down the hatches and set sail! __________ The perfect gift for veteran seafarers and armchair navigators alike. Find out if you're worthy of captaincy or destined to be a deck hand in this beautiful and addictive puzzle book! If you're bored of Zoom Quizzes, then this is the book for all the family.

Author : Gavin Menzies
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0553815229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1421: The Year China Discovered The World written by Gavin Menzies and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were destroyed. And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook... The result of fifteen years research, 1421 is Gavin Menzies' enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet, the remarkable discoveries he made and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind - from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, giving thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea. Already hailed as a classic, this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.