The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
Kirkpatrick Sale. Plume Books, $14 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26669-8
This demythologizing biographical adventure credits Columbus with the birth of American slavery and Euro-colonialism, and examines how peaceful Native Americans saw their societies and environments plundered by the whites' encroachments. Sale's ``wide-angled history represents a major rethinking of the relationship between Europe and America,'' said PW. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 09/02/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 453 pages - 978-0-394-57429-5