The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
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07.10.2025
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W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9781324086949
Entertaining and unpredictable.... [S]urprising and significant. Andrés Reséndez, New York Times Book Review
A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbushis life, his legacies, and the controversies that outlived him.
Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May 1506, as don Cristóbal Colón. More than five centuries later, we are still arguing over his life and its significance. Millions if not billions of people have learned his name. Most have some sense of what he did, that it was momentous, a great achievement, an act of primacy. But was his achievement great because he discovered America and thus made possible the hemisphere's great nations? Or was it an apocalyptic catastrophe for tens of millions of Indigenous and African peoples?
In The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus, acclaimed historian Matthew Restall, perhaps the leading scholar of the Spanish Empire, presents a new, authoritative biography of Columbus, while at the same time tracing his many afterlives down into our own time. He explores the mysteries, many of them manufactured, that color our understanding of Columbus even in the twenty-first centurymysteries surrounding Columbus's name, nationality, place of birth, ancestry, education, religion, intellectual vision, moral fiber, sexual proclivities, and current resting place. He shows how Columbus became an iconic American hero in the nineteenth century, and how a parallel hero emerged in the form of the Italian American Columbus.
Restall takes us beyond polemic, sifting through the evidence across nations, languages, and five centuries to explore the many questions that make up what he calls Columbiana. He demonstrates that, far from a uniquely talented individual, Columbus was typical of the Iberian and northern Italian men of his daya merchant mariner who became an explorer, slave-trader, and conquistador-settler. And Restall challenges the notion, deeply held to this day, that Columbus can be credited or blamed for all that happened after 1492.
Whatever one's views of Columbus, Restall's book is the necessary, definitive account. It dispels the myths and gives us Columbus as he was. It shows how he has been distorted in the centuries since his deathand how we might come to understand him, and his legacies, anew.
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