Media type: E-Article Title: The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies. By Nicolás Wey Gómez (Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 2008) 616 pp. $42.95 Contributor: Watts, Pauline Moffitt Published: MIT Press - Journals, 2010 Published in: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 41 (2010) 2, Seite 290-291 Language: English DOI: 10.1162/jinh_r_00070 ISSN: 0022-1953; 1530-9169 Keywords: History and Philosophy of Science ; History ; History and Philosophy of Science ; History Origination: Footnote: