1492 The Year the World Began

Name: 1492 The Year the World Began
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ISBN: 9780061132285

ISBN-10: 0061132284

ISBN-13: 9780061132285

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Authors: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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Fernandez-Armesto presents a global look at the year when everything changed and the modern world was born.

Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Felipe Fernï¿½ndez-Armesto, the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration and Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, and London.




ï¿½This World Is Smallï¿½: Prophecy and Reality in 1492



ï¿½To Constitute Spain to the Service of Godï¿½: The Extinction of Islam in Western Europe



ï¿½I Can See the Horsemenï¿½: The Strivings of Islam in Africa



ï¿½No Sight More Pitiableï¿½: The Mediterranean World and the Redistribution of the Sephardim



ï¿½Is God Angry with Us?ï¿½: Culture and Conflict in Italy



Toward ï¿½the Land of Darknessï¿½: Russia and the Eastern Marches of Christendom



ï¿½That Sea of Bloodï¿½: Columbus and the Transatlantic Link



ï¿½Among the Singing Willowsï¿½: China, Japan, and Korea



ï¿½The Seas of Milk and Butterï¿½: The Indian Ocean Rim



ï¿½The Fourth Worldï¿½: Indigenous Societies in the Atlantic and the Americas


Epilogue: The World We're In


Notes


Provenance of Illustrations


Index