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Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth

Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth

Koning, Hans

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 0853458251
ISBN13: 9780853458258
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: Jan 1 1992
Pages: 141
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

The true history of Christopher Columbus and his fateful voyage

In this beautifully written revisionist biography, accessible to people of all ages, Hans Koning gives us the true history of Columbus' life and voyages. Koning describes how Columbus' consuming drive to send mountains of gold back to Spain shaped his life, beginning the story with his childhood in Genoa and ending after his return from his fourth and final voyage, an old man in disgrace. He shows how Columbus' discovery led to the enrichment of the conquerors through the plunder and murder of the native peoples of the Americas.

In an afterword for teachers, Bill Bigelow a high school social studies teacher and the author of several curricula shows how the book can be imaginatively used in the classroom to teach students to read history skeptically.

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