![]() ![]() These are the respective and heterodox points of the two books. ![]() So “Native American” is rendered as the less misleading and more widely self-identified “Indian,” while “Christopher Columbus” appears as “Cristóbal Colón.”īut two terms Mann makes a repeated point of not mincing in 1491 and 1493 are “New World” and “globalization.” Simply put, the “New World” is not so new-not even close “globalization” is not just about economic integration. Mann, author of the 2005 study 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and the subsequent 2011 volume 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, has a clever method for dealing with the controversial nomenclature surrounding any discussion of the pre-Columbian Americas: he calls peoples by the names which present-day members call themselves, and stays true to the historically self-described titles used by individuals and groups that existed in the past. ![]()
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