1492 : the year the world began / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--History.

Civilization, Modern.

History.

Church and state--History.

Church and state.

Physical Description:

vi, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Fourteen hundred ninety-two

Fourteen ninety-two

Year the world began

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperOne, [2009]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-338) and index.

ISBN:

9780061132278 :

0061132276 :

OCLC:

310398924