For a recent issue of Art Journal, John White reviews Amerasia by Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel. Click here to learn more about the book. See the button to the left to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“In Amerasia, the authors amass a vast amount of material that speaks to a shifting early modern worldview of America and Asia as geographically and/or conceptually linked or overlapping.The so-called discovery of the new world around the turn of the sixteenth century, they write, did not fix understandings of world geography but rather instantiated a paradigm through which Europeans attempted to make sense of America by way of association with Asia, sometimes with reference, as well, to Africa.”