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A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas, this book links Columbus's route with colonialism, slavery, and the divide between the industrialized North and the developing South. It investigates the complicated nexus between place and colonialism in Columbus's invention of the American tropics.Wey-Gómez, Nicolás is the author of 'The Tropics of Empire', published 2008 under ISBN 9780262232647 and ISBN 0262232642.
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