Bartosik-Vélez, Elise

International and area studies cannot afford to ignore the critical insights offered by an inquiry into the aesthetic dimensions of social life. Artistic production is the crafted representation of self and environment, and it...

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Partiendo de un análisis del archivo histórico, este artículo se propone demostrar que Cristóbal Colón, y no la corona española, fue el primero en interpretar su empresa de acuerdo con la ideología del imperio universal...

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Bartosik-Vélez, Elise

Bartosik-Vélez, Elise. Fray Francisco de la Cruz and translatio imperii. Colonial Latin American Review 30, no. 1 (2021): 25-43. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10609164.2020.1865722, On 13 April 1578, the...

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In Globalization and Christopher Columbus in the Americas, Elise Bartosik-Vélez considers the responses of scholars working in colonial and early modern studies to recent exponential increases in the transnationalization of...

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Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in...

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During the 1760s, after decades of strong economic and population growth in Britain’s American colonies, the notion that the capital of the imperial state would move from London to some American city became increasingly common....

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If any one cultural source lay behind the republican revolutions of the eighteenth century, writes United States historian Gordon Wood, "it was ancient Rome -- republican Rome -- and the values that flowed from its history....

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In 1805, a young Simón Bolívar had been in Europe for about five years, solidifying his education and making social connections. After Napoleon’s coronation in Paris as emperor of France in December 1804, a ceremony that...

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Published as:Bartosik-Vélez, Elise. The Three Rhetorical Strategies of Christopher Columbus. Colonial Latin American Review 11, no. 1 (2002): 33-46. For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's...

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The Milanese humanist Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457-1526) was the first historiographer to write about Christopher Columbus and to recognize the significance of the first Columbian voyage by coining the term New World. His...

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