Columbus's Outpost Among the Tainos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498

By Kathleen Deagan and José Maria Cruxent

Book Overview

In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of 17 ships and more than 1200 men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was in ruins. It remains important, however, as the first site of European settlement in America and the first place of sustained interaction between Europeans and the indigenous Tainos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300090404
• ISBN13: 9780300090406
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.6"