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Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory Series) (Reprint Edition) by Jose Rabasa Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-8061-2539-X / 080612539X ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-2539-8 / 9780806125398 In Inventing America, Jose Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European inventio |