1492
1492

Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1408809508

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The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began. In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.

1492
1492

Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-14

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 006195909X

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1492: The Year the World Began is a look at one of the most fascinating years in world history, the year when many believe the modern world was born. Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of Millennium, covers such iconic figures as Christopher Columbus and Alexander Borgia and explores cultures as diverse as that of Spain, China, and Africa to tell the story of 1492, a momentous year whose lessons are still relevant today

The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492
The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492

Author: Christopher Columbus

Publisher: Martino Fine Books

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781891396915

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2011 Reprint of the 1920 Edition. Illustrated by Cosgrove. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the actual log of Christopher Columbus as copied out by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas. Besides being authentic source material about the voyage and the core of the Columbus legend, this journal has all the day-by-day enchantment of a long sea voyage with all the drama of a small ship steering into the unknown-the first pelican, a crab in the seaweed, a branch of roseberries and a carved log found floating in the water, mutterings of mutiny and the constant watch for signs of land. John Cosgrove, the illustrator, adds to the book on every page with pictures of whales and riggings, compasses and charts, which are both decorative and accurate pictorial footnotes to the log.

1492
1492

Author: Piero Ventura

Publisher:

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 9781422392188

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This book takes an imaginary journey through the Europe of 1492 as seen & experienced by imaginary persons of the time. Then we will follow Columbus¿s actual first voyage to the New World. Contents: The Old World; Germany; Flanders; England; France; The Ottoman Empire; Genoa; Portugal; Spain; Columbus & His Dream; The Ships & the Voyage; The Return to Spain; The New World; The Tainos, Aztecs, Maya, & the Incas; The Buffalo Hunters; Villages Under a Rock Roof; The Lake & Forest Tribes; The Admiral¿s Destiny; Voyages of Discovery After 1492; The Orient; Europe After Columbus; Important Dates in European History 1493-1558; & Important Dates in Italian Renaissance Art; Native North & South America; & 500 Years Later. Illustrations.

If You Were There in 1492
If You Were There in 1492

Author: Barbara Brenner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 0689822413

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Chock-full of little-known facts and written with you-are-there immediacy, this volume explores everyday life in Spain at the end of the 15th century.

A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States

Author: Howard Zinn

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2003-02-04

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13: 9780060528423

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Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

1492
1492

Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781408800706

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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to 1492, that single, fateful year- the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe; the way major religions and civilisations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Our individualism and the very sense we share of inhabiting one world, as partakers in a common humanity, took shape and became visible. In search of the origins of modernity, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing the together the threads that began to bind the planet. The tour starts in Granada, where the last Islamic kingdom in Europe collapsed, then moves to Timbuktoo, where a new Muslim empire triumphed. With Portuguese explorers, we visit the court of the first Christian king in the southern hemisphere. We join Jews expelled from Spain as they cross the Mediterranean to North Africa, Italy and Istanbul. We see the frozen frontiers of the dynamic, bloody Russia of Ivan the Great, and hear mystical poets sing on the shores of the Indian Ocean. We observe the Aztecs and Incas lay the foundations of a New World in the Americas. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book. Everywhere, new departures marked the start of a new configuration for humankind, revealing how and why the modern world is different from the worlds of antiquity and the middle ages. History seems a patternless labyrinth - but a good guide can trace our paths through it back to the moment when some of the most striking features of today's world began.