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88 - On Columbus - Robert Royal
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The debate over Christopher Columbus's legacy tends to go back and forth from cartoonish demonization to glossing over the man's real faults. Robert Royal, in his book Columbus and the Crisis of the West, does neither of those things, instead giving a nuanced picture of Columbus's motives, worldview, faults and achievements.
The book goes beyond Columbus himself, however, examining the overall significance of the encounters between cultures that occurred in the Age of Exploration, how we do history, and how the West idealizes and instrumentalizes…
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