1492 : the year our world began

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London; New Delphi : Bloomsbury, 2010
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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
  • The world we're in.