{"product_id":"the-meeting-of-two-worlds-warwick-bray-9780197261347","title":"The Meeting of Two Worlds: Europe and the Americas 1492-1650","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeroic endeavour or diaster of hemispheric proportions? What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together 11 scholars - from both sides of the Atantic and from the disciplines of history, archaeology, anthropology, geography and biology - to discuss the nature of the European conquest and its consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major them is the complex process by which Europeans and Amerindians adapted to create new \u003cem\u003ecriollo\u003c\/em\u003e cultures which are distinctively American: the successess and failures of this process are evident in Latin America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe multidisciplinary scope of this volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the enormous changes that followed Columbus' expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Warwick Bray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197261345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197261347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e British Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.45w x 1.13d","brand":"Warwick Bray","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48748277563647,"sku":"9780197261347","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-meeting-of-two-worlds-warwick-bray-9780197261347","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}