The European opportunity
By: [edited by] Felipe Fernández Armesto.
Contributors: Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
Series: An expanding world ;; v. 2
Publisher: Variorum
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Aldershot, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Discoveries in geography -- Asian.
Notes: Includes three articles in French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection of previously published material, 1960-1992.
Table of contents: title: Geography in fifteenth-century Florence / Thomas Goldstein; title: Navigation primitive et navigation astronomique / Paul Adam; title: Portuguese shipbuilding and the early voyages to the Guinea Coast / Richard W. Unger; title: Le rôle des capitaux internationaux dans les voyages et découvertes au XVe et XVIe siècles / Jacques Heers; title: Italian influences in Iberian colonization / Charles Verlinden; title: Prince Henry the Navigator / P.E. Russell; title: Fernand Colomb et le traité d'astrologie d'Henri le Navigateur / Guy Beaujouan; title: Back to gold; title: and silver / Andrew H. Watson; title: The quest for Prester John / C.F. Beckingham; title: Prophecy and discovery : on the spiritual origins of Christopher Columbus's "enterprise of the Indies" / Pauline Moffitt Watts; title: The transfer of colonial techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic / Charles Verlinden; title: The Castilian as plainsman / Charles Julian Bishko; title: Atlantic exploration before Columbus : the evidence of maps / Felipe Fernández-Armesto; title: European merchants in the medieval Indies : the evidence of commercial documents / Robert S. Lopez; title: Frontier arrangements in fragmented societies : Ireland and Wales / Rees Davies.