Volume 23, Number 19 · November 25, 1976
Caliban's Gift
By Christopher Hill
First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old
edited by Fredi Chiappelli
University of California Press, 2 volumes, 996 pp., $75.00
Columbus: His Enterprise
by Hans Koning
Monthly Review Press, 128 pp., $6.50
One by-product of the bicentennial of 1776 seems to have been a revival of interest in 1492 and the perennially fascinating question of relations between Europe and America. In February 1975 the University of California at Los Angeles organized a conference 'devoted to the initial impact of the New World on the Old,…on the repercussions which modified the lives and thought of Europeans in the centuries to come.' It must have been quite an occasion, leading to two large volumes adding up to over 900 pages; and even they do not include all the papers delivered at the conference.
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