Abstract
In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic seeking a western passage to India. To his dying day, Columbus believed he had landed in India (hence the ‘West Indies’) but had in fact ‘discovered’ America. His epic voyage had momentous consequences. The conquest of the New World of the Americas by the European powers changed the nature of world politics. Great empires like those of Rome and Egypt had risen and fallen before, but the European powers, with their ships, guns and trinkets, opened up the world on an unprecedented scale.
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© 1992 Rod Hague, Martin Harrop and Shaun Breslin
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Hague, R., Harrop, M., Breslin, S. (1992). The Nation-State in One World. In: Comparative Government and Politics. Comparative Government and Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22276-6_5
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