In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of 17 ships and more than 1200 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 in America and the first place of sustained interaction between Europeans and the indigenous Tainos.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300090404
ISBN-13
9780300090406
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2213747
Product Key Features
Author
Kathleen A. Deagan, José María Cruxent
Publication Name
Columbus's Outpost Among the Tainos : Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Adventurers & Explorers, Caribbean & West Indies / General