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The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat
Even European home waters were named by sailors after their destination. The Irish Sea was the route from England to Ireland; ...
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Is the Gulf of America a post-truth colonization?
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is an effort to rework the historical narrative about that geographic area. In good English that ...
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The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names
Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds ... the Mexica when they first arrived and put this gem on Europe’s conquering to-do list. They showed its vast, curving ...
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The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat
The Gulf of Mexico instead got its name from 16th-century Spanish mapmakers. In the age of discovery and conquest, European mariners often named bodies of water after the destination territory on ...