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Title The European opportunity / [edited by] Felipe Fernández Armesto
Published Aldershot, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum, 1995
Aldershot, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, ©1995

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 W'PONDS  941.085092 Arm/Eop  AVAILABLE
Description xxi, 360 pages : illustrations, 3 maps ; 25 cm
Series Expanding world ; v. 2
Expanding world ; v. 2
Contents 1. Geography in Fifteenth-Century Florence / Thomas Goldstein -- 2. Navigation primitive et navigation astronomique / Paul Adam -- 3. Portuguese Shipbuilding and the Early Voyages to the Guinea Coast / Richard W. Unger -- 4. Le role des capitaux internationaux dans les voyages de decouvertes aux XVe et XVIe siecles /Jacques Heers -- 5. Italian Influences in Iberian Colonization / Charles Verlinden -- 6. Prince Henry the Navigator / P. E. Russell -- 7. Fernand Colomb et le traite d'astrologie d'Henri le navigateur / Guy Beaujouan -- 8. Back to Gold - and Silver / Andrew M. Watson -- 9. The Quest for Prester John / C. F. Beckingham -- 10. Prophecy and Discovery: On the Spiritual Origins of Christopher Columbus's 'Enterprise of the Indies' / Pauline Moffitt Watts --11. The Transfer of Colonial Techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic / Charles Verlinden --12. The Castilian as Plainsman: The Medieval Ranching Frontier in La Mancha and Extremadura / Charles Julian Bishko
Analysis Europe History, 1100 - 1815
Notes Collection of previously published material, 1960-1992
Includes three articles in French
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Includes three articles in French
Subject Discoveries in geography -- Asian
Discoveries in geography -- European
Discoveries in geography.
SUBJECT Europe -- Historical geography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114994
Author Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
LC no. 95003129
ISBN 0860785017