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Title The tropics of empire [electronic resource] : why Columbus sailed south to the Indies / Nicolás Wey Gómez.

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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xxiv, 592 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Series	Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
	Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-568) and index.
Reproduction	Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2016. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Note	Description based on print version.
Subject	Columbus, Christopher -- Knowledge -- Geography.
	America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
	Tropics -- Geography.
	Geography, Medieval.
	Discoveries in geography.
	Navigation -- History.
	Europe -- Intellectual life -- 15th century.
	Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 -- Knowledge -- Geography.
	Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420? -- Knowledge -- Geography.
	Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 -- Knowledge -- Geography.
Added Author	American Council of Learned Societies.
In:	ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form:	Original 9780262232647 (DLC) 2007020947
Standard No.	2027/heb31248 hdl