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The legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas : new nations and a transatlantic discourse of empire / by Bartosik-Velez, Elise, 1966-

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Christopher Columbus: his portraits and his monuments : A descriptive catalogue / by Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911

Myths That Made America : an Introduction to American Studies by Paul, Heike

Table of Contents: “…Christopher Columbus and the Myth of 'Discovery' -- Pocahontas and the Myth of Transatlantic Love -- Pilgrims and Puritans and the Myth of the Promised Land -- American Independence and the Myth of the Founding Fathers -- E Pluribus Unum? …”
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Theory for the world to come : speculative fiction and apocalyptic anthropology by Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J.

Table of Contents: “…Wyndham's Rule: Extrapolation, Intensification, Mutation -- Detroit Diaries, 1992-­1999 -- White Futures and Visceral Presents: "Robocop" and P-­Funk -- The Revolutionary Horizons of Labor and Automation: "Blue Collar" and "Player Piano" -- California Diaries, 2008-­2015 -- Extrapolating Neoliberalism in the Western Frontier: Octavia Butler's Parables -- New York Diaries, 2015-­2018 -- The Nihilism of Deep Time: "Man after Man" and After -- Mutating Temporalities: Slipstream Christopher Columbus -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited.…”
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From Columbus to Castro : the history of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 by Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981

Table of Contents: “…Westward ho! -- Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the West Indies -- Gold and sugar -- White capital and coloured labour -- Spanish colonialism -- Colonial nationalism -- The cockpit of Europe -- The poor whites -- King sugar -- Capitalism and slavery -- The exclusive -- White colonials versus black colonials -- Crush the infamy! …”
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American icons : transatlantic perspectives on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American art

Table of Contents: “…American genesis : the landing of Christopher Columbus / Barbara Groseclose -- Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art / Werner Busch -- Self, time, and object in American art : Copley, Lane, and Homer / Barbara Novak -- Romantic landscape painting in America : history as nature, nature as history / Martin Christadler -- Inventing the myth of the American frontier : Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Fictions of nationhood : Leutze's pursusit of an American history painting in Düsseldorf / Barbara Gaehtgens -- Kindred spirits : notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century / William Hauptman -- Strategies of recognition : the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame / Ursula Frohne.…”
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American icons transatlantic perspectives on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American art

Table of Contents: “…American genesis : the landing of Christopher Columbus / Barbara Groseclose -- Copley, West, and the tradition of European high art / Werner Busch -- Self, time, and object in American art : Copley, Lane, and Homer / Barbara Novak -- Romantic landscape painting in America : history as nature, nature as history / Martin Christadler -- Inventing the myth of the American frontier : Bingham's images of fur traders and flatboatmen as symbols of the expanding nation / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Fictions of nationhood : Leutze's pursusit of an American history painting in Düsseldorf / Barbara Gaehtgens -- Kindred spirits : notes on Swiss and American painting of the nineteenth century / William Hauptman -- Strategies of recognition : the conditioning of the American artist between marginality and fame / Ursula Frohne.…”
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World's fairs : a global history of expositions. [Material from the Newberry Library],

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Filosofia, politica e cosmologia : ensaios sobre o renascimento.

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1421 : the year China discovered America by Menzies, Gavin

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Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin by Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-

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