Before Columbus Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492

Name: Before Columbus Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492
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ISBN: 9780812214123

ISBN-10: 0812214129

ISBN-13: 9780812214123

Edition: 1987

Authors: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Ruth Mazo Karras

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Demonstrating that Columbus's voyage was a new step in a centuries-old process of European expansion, Fernandez-Armesto provides a stimulating account of the broadening of Europe's physical and mental horizons in the Middle Ages. He shows how the techniques and institutions of medieval colonial expansion that were applied to the New World made long-term conquest and settlement possible. A brief introduction analyzes the problems that face students and historians. Then, concentrating on medieval Spanish colonial development, but carefully linking that development to the wider European process of expansion, the author surveys the great areas of expansion in the Western Mediterranean: the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 6/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
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.



Preface


A Note on Names


List of Maps


Introduction


Problems and Approaches



From the Mediterranean ...



The Island Conquests of the House of Bargelona


Majorca, 'The Kingdom in the Sea'


Ibiza and Formentera


'Proceeding Eastwards': Minorca and Sardinia


Aragon's Dynastic 'Empire'



The First 'Atlantic' Empire: Andalusia and its Environs


The Conquest of Upper Andalusia


The Conquest of Seville


The Fate of the Moors


The Nature of Settlement



A Mediterranean Land Empire: Sharq al Andalus


Valencia and Northern Murcia: Conquest and Division


Colonial Society in Valencia


Southern Murcia


An Imperial Formation



The Genoese Mediterranean


The 'Absence' of the State


The Sovereign Colonies


'Ambivalence': Typical Genoese Colonisation and Trade


The Transmission of Genoese Influence



The Rim of Africa


The Condition of the Maghrib


The Aragonese Protectorate


The Merchant Colonists


The Lure of the Gold Trade



To the Atlantic



Mapping the Eastern Atlantic


The Early Phases of Atlantic Navigation


The Exploration of the Canaries


The Mapping of the Archipelagoes


The 'Unknown Pilots'



The Atlantic Crucible


Fourteenth-century Beginnings


Bethencourt, La Salle and the Peraza


The Islands of the Infantes


The Rounding of Africa's Bulge


The Portuguese Colonies



From the Canaries to the New World


The Context of Columbus


The Last Canarian Conquests


Granada, the Canaries and America


The 'Rise' of Portugal and Castile



The Mental Horizon


The 'Discovery of Man'


The Image of the World


References


Further Reading


Index