by Andrew Rowen | Oct 5, 2025 | New York City
Columbus and Caonabó: 1493–1498 Retold depicts the war between Columbus and Chief Caonabó in 1495 and Columbus’s subjugation of a significant portion of “Española” by the spring of 1498, largely the chiefdoms of Marien, Magua, and Maguana. But much of Española then...
by Andrew Rowen | Sep 28, 2025 | New York City
Leading book review firms and U.S. and Dominican scholars praise Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold for its depiction of the beginning of Caribbean colonialism. Advance reviews include: “Deeply researched, devastating novel of the dawn of...
by Andrew Rowen | Sep 26, 2025 | New York City
At last, I announce the sequel, releasing November 10 and now available for preorder at booksellers of your choice! A historical novel, Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold dramatizes from both Native and European perspectives the European...
by Andrew Rowen | Aug 12, 2025 | New York City
I finish posting about my recent research trips to Spain and the Dominican Republic with photos of monuments commemorating two famous Spaniards who decried conquest tyranny and fought for the rights of Indians in the New World, Bartolomé de Las Casas and Antonio de...
by Andrew Rowen | Jul 9, 2025 | New York City
When Queen Isabella initially decided to remove Columbus as “Española’s” governor, she also began licensing other explorers to possess the continental coastline that Columbus had found on the outward portion of his third voyage. Eight voyages to the northern coast of...
by Andrew Rowen | Jun 7, 2025 | New York City
When Columbus arrived at the Caribbean in 1492, Chief Behecchio ruled Xaraguá, one of “Española’s” five principal chiefdoms. Located in the island’s southwest portion, Xaraguá was then admired for its large population and abundant crops and the civility of its daily...
