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Columbus's Outpost among the Taínos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498
Columbus's Outpost among the Tanos Spain and America at La Isabela 14931498
Author: Kathleen Deagan, Jose Maria Cruxent
In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was in ruins. It remains important, however, as the first site of European settlement...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300090406
ISBN-10: 0300090404
Publication Date: 5/1/2002
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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