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  • THE EUROPEAN OPPORTUNITY
    FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO
    These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores the means in terms of science, technology and material resources; part two examines the motives, primarily as a result of restricted resources in Europe; while part three concludes with the reasons that the expansion continued and...

    $4,600.00

  • THE MALASPINA EXPEDITION 1789–1794
    ANDREW DAVID / FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO / GLYNDWR WILLIAMS
    Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. Italian-born, Malaspina entered the Spanish navy in 1774. In September 1788 he and fellow-officer José Bustamante submitted a plan to the Ministry of Marine for a voyage of survey and inspection to Sp...

    $1,099.00

  • THE MEDIEVAL FRONTIERS OF LATIN CHRISTENDOM
    FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO
    The aim of this first volume in the series "The Expansion of Latin Europe" is to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences. The articles reprinted here show that European expansion began not in 1492 following Columbus's voyages bu...

    $6,000.00

  • INTERNAL COLONIZATION IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
    FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO / JAMES MULDOON
    Around the year 1000 Rodulfus Glaber described France as being in the throes of a building boom. He may have been the first writer to perceive the early medieval period as a Dark Age that was ending to be replaced by a better world. In the articles gathered here distinguished medieval historians discuss the ways in which this transformation took place. European society was beco...

    $5,400.00

  • 1492
    FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO
    A study of events of 1492 and how they affect the global community of the world of today. The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing to...

    $251.00