Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement, 1450-1650
Author: John Horace Parry
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780520042353
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The Age of Reconnaissance
Author: John Horace Parry
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The purpose of this book is to tell in outline the story of European geographical exploration, trade and settlement outside the bounds of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to define the factors which stimulated expansion and made it possible; and to describe briefly the consequences which followed it."--Preface
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.
Spanish Seaborne Empire
Author: John Horace Parry
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-09-05
Total Pages: 571
ISBN-13: 0307822850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals and "liberators." Parry presents a broad picture of the conquests of Cortès and Pizarro and of the economic and social consequences in Spain of the effort to maintain control of vast holdings. He probes the complex administration of the empire, its economy, social structure, the influence of the Church, the destruction of the Indian cultures and the effect of their decline on Spanish policy. As we approach the quincentenary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Parry provides the historical basis for a new consideration of the former Spanish colonies of Latin America and the transformation of pre-Columbian cultures to colonial states.
The Discovery of the Sea
Author: John Horace Parry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780520042377
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Author: J. H. Parry
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1968-06-18
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1349000043
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Author: J. H. Parry
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1964-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780451610812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Gold, Glory, and the Gospel
Author: Louis Booker Wright
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively, colorful account of the adventures of Spanish, Portuguese, and English explorers emphasizes their diverse and seemingly contradictory motives.
The Long Process of Development
Author: Jerry F. Hough
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-30
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1107670411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.
The Saltwater Frontier
Author: Andrew Lipman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0300216696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrew Lipman’s eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region’s Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, Lipman uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans’ arbitrary land boundaries, he reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores. Lipman’s book “successfully redirects the way we look at a familiar history” (Neal Salisbury, Smith College). Extensively researched and elegantly written, this latest addition to Yale’s seventeenth-century American history list brings the early years of New England and New York vividly to life.
