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Podcast: New Books in Western European Studies
Episode: Caroline Dodds Pennock, "On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe" (Knopf, 2023)
Description: On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Knopf, 2023) by Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock presents a landmark work of narrative history that shatters our Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery.We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the âOld Worldâ encountered the âNewâ, when Christopher Columbus âdiscoveredâ America in 1492. But, as Dr. Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and othersâenslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, tradersâthe reverse was true: they discovered Europe.For them, Europe comprised savage shores, a land of...