Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus's Demise: 1498-1502 Retold

A historical novel, Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold dramatizes from both Native and European perspectives the European subjugation of Española’s indigenous peoples during the least studied period of the island’s brutal conquest. Based on primary sources, it distinctively sets the two remarkable woman rulers—Spain’s Queen Isabel, the conqueror, and the Taíno Indian chieftain Anacaona, who resisted conquest during the entire period—on comparable pedestals and tells Columbus’s demise through his eyes and those of Taíno chieftains and Spaniards who opposed him.