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The globe encircled and the world revealed / / edited by Ursula Lamb |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 pages) |
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Collana |
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Expanding World ; ; Volume 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Discoveries in geography |
Civilization, Modern - European influences |
Europe Territorial expansion |
Europe Colonies |
America Discovery and exploration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 1995 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. On the way to the East: Portuguese communication with Africans on the searoute to India / Jeanne Hein -- 2. Wishes and facts: The evaluation of Columbus' 'India' project by Portuguese and Spanish cosmographers in the light of the geographic science of the time / W.G.L. Randles -- 3. In search of meaning: The certainty of Columbus : some recent studies / John Larner -- 4. Significance of interpretation: The meaning of 'discovery' in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- 5. Key to the terraquaeus globe: 'The strait that shall forever bear his name' : October-November 1520 / Samuel Eliot Morison -- 6. Mariner's world: Seamen ashore and afloat : the social environment of the Carreira da India, 1550-1750 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- 7. Arrival and conflict: Conquest and so-called conquest in Spain and Spanish America / Charles Gibson -- Nature responds: America as model : the demographic impact of European expansion upon the non-European world / Woodrow W. Borah -- 9. Atlantic becomes familiar: Generalizations : European source regions / D.W. Meinig -- 10. City in Spain: Seville in the sixteenth century / Ruth Pike -- 11. City in America: Tenochtitlan : the public image / Inga Clendinnen -- 12. Mission to save souls: Faith and empire : the cross |
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