The age of reconnaissance.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: The World histories of civilization
Publisher: World Pub. Co.
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Cleveland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Discoveries in geography.; Colonization -- History.
Description: Age of Reconnaissance, as J.H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. Dr. Parry examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprises at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.
Notes: Includes bibliography.