The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama / Edition 1

The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama / Edition 1

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
ISBN-10:
0521646294
ISBN-13:
9780521646291
Pub. Date:
10/29/1998
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521646294
ISBN-13:
9780521646291
Pub. Date:
10/29/1998
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama / Edition 1

The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama / Edition 1

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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Overview

Vasco da Gama (?1469–1524) is well known as one of a generation of discoverers, along with Magellan, Cabral, and Columbus. Yet little is known about his life, or about the context within which he 'discovered' the all-sea route to India in 1497–99. This book, based on a mass of published and unpublished sources in Portuguese and other languages, delineates Gama's career and social context, focusing on the delicate balance between 'career' and 'legend'. The book addresses broad questions of myth-building and nationalism, while never losing sight of Gama himself.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521646291
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/29/1998
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 428
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Overture: bones of contention; 2. The heritage of Santiago; 3. To Calicut and back; 4. The attempt to consolidate; 5. The wilderness years; 6. A career culminates; Finale: the judgements of posterity; Bibliography.
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