Carol Delaney received an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. She is now a professor emerita at Stanford University and a research scholar at Brown University. Delaney is the author of several books, including Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth.
Brilliant. Enlightening. The surprise here is not that a vaunted
academic like Delaney has written such a deeply researched take on
the Columbus legacy, but that she does so with page-turning style,
effortlessly transporting the modern reader into the minds and
motivations of 15th-century Europe
*Martin Dugard, author of The Last Voyage of Columbus*
A new and provocative interpretation of Columbus. Carol Delaney
uses her training as a cultural anthropologist to brilliantly
explicate Columbus's strange, apocalyptic world. By being more
sensitive to the differentness of the past than most historians,
she has written a remarkable work of history, and one that is
utterly accessible
*Gordon S. Wood, author of The Idea of America: Reflections on the
Birth of the United States*
A welcome reappraisal of Columbus and his legacy
*Kirkus Reviews*
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