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Out of Our Minds
‘Immensely learned and ambitious…seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio… This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.’ Literary Review …
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan. With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto subjects the …
The Canary Islands after the Conquest
The Canary Islands after the Conquest The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century
The Malaspina Expedition 1789–1794
Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. …
Approaches to Global History
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 This volume brings together 25 defining texts in global history. These pieces cover approaches to the subject from antiquity to the present …
Our America
The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This …
The Medieval Frontiers of Latin Christendom
The aim of this first volume in the series "The Expansion of Latin Europe" is to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians …
How the Spanish Empire Was Built
"Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they …
The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 / ... / Volume III / Manila to Cadiz
Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. …
A Foot in the River
We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply …
The European Opportunity
These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores the means in terms of …
The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 / ... / Volume II / Panama to the Philippines
Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. …