By Elise Bartosik-Velez

Why is the capital of the us named partly after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by means of Spain who by no means set foot on what might develop into the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 identify a brand new self sufficient republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the 1st consultant of empire from which they lately broke loose? those are just of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus within the Americas, a primary recasting of Columbus as an eminently strong software in imperial constructs.

Bartosik-Velez seeks to give an explanation for the that means of Christopher Columbus in the course of the so-called New global, first within the British American colonies and the U.S., in addition to in Spanish the US, through the eighteenth and 19th centuries. She argues that, in the course of the pre- and post-revolutionary classes, New global societies as a rule imagined themselves as valid and robust self sufficient political entities by way of evaluating themselves to the classical empires of Greece and Rome. Columbus, who have been construed as a determine of empire for hundreds of years, healthy completely into that framework. via adopting him as a countrywide image, New global nationalists attract outdated global notions of empire.

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