Columbus and the Crisis of the West
Here is the book that cuts through the fashionable pieties of our time by boldly refuting the most popular indictments of Columbus and early America. Refusing to ignore or underplay the tragedies of America's origins, Royal masterfully places these events in historical context, protecting them from the contemporary biases that are moving forward at ramming speed to crush fragile truths. But is this a legitimate assessment of Europe's inevitable western expansion? In Columbus and the Crisis of the West , Dr.