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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas : New Nations and a Transa…
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Bartosik-Vélez, Elise

Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of th…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780826519535
Collation
216 halaman
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900 BAR l