Bibliograph

1492, the year the world began, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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1492, the year the world began, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

1492

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

310398924

Responsibility statement

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Sub title

the year the world began

Table Of Contents

This world is small : prophecy and reality in 1492 -- To constitute Spain to the service of God : the extinction of Islam in Western Europe -- I can see the horsemen : the strivings of Islam in Africa -- No sight more pitiable : the Mediterranean world and the redistribution of the Sephardim -- Is God angry with us? : culture and conflict in Italy -- Toward the land of darkness : Russia and the eastern marches of Christendom -- That sea of blood : Columbus and the transatlantic link -- Among the singing willows : China, Japan, and Korea -- The seas of milk and butter : the Indian Ocean rim -- The fourth world : indigenous societies in the Atlantic and the Americas -- Epilogue : the world we're in

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