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List of Illustrations xi
List of Maps xiv
Preface xv
Dramatis Personae xix
Glossary xxiv
Mental Horizons: The Peoples, Islands and Shores of the Imagination 1
Finding People from Other Worlds 3
Was Mankind Created More Than Once? 3
Was Intelligent Life Created More Than Once? 7
Wild Men and Wanderers 10
Columbus Sets his Course, August 1492 10
Strange Peoples 14
Wild Men of the West 18
Wild Men of the East 20
Men without Reason 21
Images of Asia 24
Rumours of Japan 24
Letters to the Rulers of the Orient 27
Eastern Horizons: The Peoples, Islands and Shores of the Eastern Atlantic 31
Innocence and Wildness in the Canary Islands, 1341-1400 33
Seven Miniature Continents 33
The View from Florence, 1341 36
A Pastoral Idyll 40
Wild Solitude 42
The Revelation to the Pagans, 1400 44
The Canary Islanders, 1341-1496 49
Uncontaminated Gentiles 49
IslandBerbers 51
The Naked and the Clothed 54
Pagan Rites 58
Divided Realms 62
Rights of Dominion, 1341-1496 65
Contrasting Priorities, 1341-51 65
The Grumbling Canon of Zurich, 1370/1450 68
Missions to the Edges of the World, 1344-1400 70
Quarrelsome Conquerors, 1402-44 76
Chivalry and Greed, 1402-4 76
Prince Henry's Ambitions, 1424-36 82
Nearly Wild Men, 1436-60 86
Gold and Slaves, 1444-96 90
Black and Brown Slaves, 1444 90
Africa in Western Eyes 92
Castile Claims its Share, 1479-96 95
Western Horizons: The Peoples, Islands and Shores of the Western Atlantic 103
From the Old Canaries to the New Canaries, 1492 105
The Island of the Holy Saviour, 12 October 1492 105
Simple and Beautiful People, October 1492 110
Tainos and Caribs 115
Early Peoples of the Caribbean 115
The Taino Indians 117
In Harmony with Nature? 119
Chieftains and Families 123
The Caribs 125
Turtles, Shamans and Snorting Tubes 131
A Humble Friar 131
A World outside Time 137
Conversations with the Dead 141
Cuba = Cipangu = Japan, 1492 145
Going from Good to Better, October 1492 145
The Discovery of Cuba, October-November 1492 149
An Imperfect Paradise, November 1492 153
Cannibal Tales, November 1492 155
Spain's New Dominions, November-December 1492 158
La Navidad, 1492-3 162
The Second Spain, December 1492 162
Naked Kings, December 1492 164
The First European Settlement, Christmas 1492 167
First Encounter with the Caribs, January 1493 172
First News of the New World, 1493 175
Reports from Paradise, 1493 175
The Golden Age, 1493/1511 178
A Borgia Divides the World, May 1493 183
Into the Caribbean, 1493-4 187
Columbus Visits the Cannibals, November 1493 187
Violence in Paradise, 1493-4 192
The Spanish Stockade, 1494 196
Misrule in Hispaniola, 1494-6 199
Fleeting Glimpses of Cathay, 1494-5 199
Pacification by Means of War, 1494 201
Handcuffs from Heaven, 1495 206
Tribute in Gold, 1495-6 207
The Project Unravels, 1497-8 213
A Pear-Shaped World, 1498 213
'In Their Demeanour Like to Brute Beasts', 1497-8 217
The Virgin and Child of Calicut, 1497-8 220
Columbus Eclipsed, 1498-1506 224
Roldan's Rebellion, 1498 224
Towards the Lands of the Mayas, 1502 228
The Moon Turns to Blood, 1503-4 235
Encomienda Tribute 238
Southern Horizons: The Peoples and Shores of Atlantic South America 239
Vespucci's Tabloid Journalism, 1497-1504 241
A Florentine Publicist 241
A Voyage of the Imagination, 1497 244
Vespucci's Cannibals, 1499 251
Slavers and their Victims, 1499-1504 258
America is Born, 1507 260
The Land of the Holy Cross, 1500 262
The Lands of the Tupinamba 262
The Great Blemish 265
Cabral's Landfall, April 1500 268
Cabral among the Tupi Indians, April 1500 271
An Innocent People, May 1500 274
The Realm of King Arosca, 1505 278
Brazilwood and Black Slaves, 1501-11 278
A Lost French Ship, 1503-4 279
Cruel Eaters of Men, 1504 282
A Compulsory Voluntary 'Requirement', 1511-20 286
The Church in the New World, 1492-1516 286
Aristotle and the American Indians 288
The Laws of Burgos, 1512 293
The Doctrine of Submission, 1511-13 294
Theory and Practice in Cuba, 1511-13 299
Mexico, a New New World - But Strangely Familiar, 1520 302
Conclusion: The Renaissance Discovery of Man 306
The True Discoverer 306
The Wonder of Discovery 308
The Encounters Continue 310
Abbreviations 314
Notes 317
Bibliography 345
Index 367
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Joaquin Silveira
reviewed The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus on June 05, 2011
The Discovery of Mankind
A fascinating book which looks at the 'discoveries' in the Atlantic specifically from the viewpoint of the interactions between Europeans and those who were 'discovered', and what attitudes and preconceptions led the Spanish and Portuguese to view the 'New World' in the way they did. The author argues that the early discoveries by Columbus and Vespucci set the scene for what followed, with the decimation of millions of people in two continents, including of course sophisticated civilisations such as those of the Mexica (Aztecs) and the Inca. If the existence of developed civilisations answered the question of whether the newly-discovered people were truly human or not, it never satisfactorily resolved the bigger question of their rights. Or, that is to say, while there might have been high-minded declarations of their rights based on the arguments of Las Casas and others, in practice they were largely ignored.
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