"Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses invo…
"During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds - geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery as well as conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science."--BOOK JACKET. "Campbell's new book analy…
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spains early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomass magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveri…
An independent scholar makes available to English readers for the first time the journals and letters of an 18th century Italian navigator in the service of Spain. As thanks for his 1789-94 scientific-political tour of Spanish colonies in the Americas - whose revolt he correctly…
An independent scholar makes available to English readers for the first time the journals and letters of an 18th century Italian navigator in the service of Spain. As thanks for his 1789-94 scientific-political tour of Spanish colonies in the Americas - whose revolt he correctly…
Tells of a fleet of Chinese treasure ships and seven epic voyages between 1405 and 1433.
by Cro, Stelio
fromCEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Stelio Cro's revealing work, arising from his more than half dozen previous books, considers the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the context of the European experience with, and reaction to, the cultures of America's original inhabitants. Taking into account Spanish, Italian…
Tells the story of the life and times of Christopher Columbus on the 500th anniversary of his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. More than that, it places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history.
Tells the story of the life and times of Christopher Columbus on the 500th anniversary of his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. More than that, it places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history.
