1492
Subtitle: the year the world began
By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780061132278
Other titles: Fourteen hundred ninety-two; Fourteen ninety-two; Year the world began
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: "This world is small" : prophecy and reality in 1492; title: "To constitute Spain to the service of God" : the extinction of Islam in Western Europe; title: "I can see the horsemen" : the strivings of Islam in Africa; title: "No sight more pitiable" : the Mediterranean world and the redistribution of the Sephardim; title: "Is God angry with us?" : culture and conflict in Italy; title: Toward "the land of darkness" : Russia and the eastern marches of Christendom; title: "That sea of blood" : Columbus and the transatlantic link; title: "Among the singing willows" : China, Japan, and Korea; title: "The seas of milk and butter" : the Indian Ocean rim; title: "The fourth world" : indigenous societies in the Atlantic and the Americas; title: The world we're in.