Rediscovery of North America

A few hours after midnight on the morning of October twelfth in the Julian calender of the West--or October twenty second, according to the modern Gregorian calender--Juan Rodriguez Bermeo, a lookout aboard the caravel Pinta, spotted the coast of either San Salvador Island or Samana Cay in the Bahamas and shouted his exclamation into the darkness.

Summary

"The assumption of an imperial right conferred by God, sanctioned by the state, and enforced by the militia, the assumption that one is due wealth in North America," he writes, is apparent in the journals of people on the Oregon Trail, in the pronouncements of nineteenth-century industrialists, and in the political rhetoric of our own day.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Lopez, Barry Holstun Lopez
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.1991
• EAN: 9780813117423
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-1742-3
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 209 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 175 g
• Series: Clark Lectures
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic