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Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America Paperback - 2003
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- Title Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America
- Author Eviatar Zerubavel
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-01-30
- ISBN 9780765809872 / 0765809877
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6 x 0.53 in (22.91 x 15.24 x 1.35 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects America - Discovery and exploration, Geography - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002027187
- Dewey Decimal Code 910.9
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New. Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?In Terra Cognita, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that physical encounters are only one part of the complex, multifaceted process of discovery. Such encounters must be complemented by an understanding of the true identity of what is being discovered. The small group of islands claimed by Columbus to have been discovered off the shores of Asia was a far cry from what we now call America. The discovery of the New World was not achieved in a single day but was a slow process--mental as well as physical--that lasted almost three hundred years. By celebrating 1492 as a year of discovery, we inevitably distort the reality of history.In vividly documenting how a slowly emerging New World gradually forced itself into Europe's consciousness, Zerubavel shows…
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