The Age of Reconnaissance
Author: John Horace Parry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780520042353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world, beginning with the mid-fifteenth century and ending 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. The author examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprise at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.