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“As the title indicates, it’s about contested history, cultural politics, and mythmaking. It focuses on the 1992 Quincentenary, which is absolutely crucial to understanding anything about Columbus since then. People say that they like how, in my book, I connect statues being pulled down in the 2020s back to the 19th century, and even back to Columbus’s own lifetime. And, absolutely, yes, but the huge event that took place between today and all of that is the 1992 Quincentenary, which was very contested.” Read more...
The best books on Christopher Columbus
Matthew Restall, Historian
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Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan
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Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
by Audrey Truschke
