Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World

"A marvelous book . . . a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'the wonder of the New World.'" -Anthony Pagden, Times Literary Supplement

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

A masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, particularly in the New World. In a...