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Before Columbus

Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492

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  • © 1987
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Authors:
  1. Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Problems and Approaches

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 1-8

  3. From the Mediterranean …

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-10
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    2. The Island Conquests of the House of Barcelona

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 11-42

    3. The First ‘Atlantic’ Empire: Andalusia and its Environs

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 43-69

    4. A Mediterranean Land Empire: Sharq al-Andalūs

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 70-95

    5. The Genoese Mediterranean

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 96-120

    6. The Rim of Africa

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 121-148

  4. … To The Atlantic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Mapping the Eastern Atlantic

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 151-168

    3. The Atlantic Crucible

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 169-202

    4. From the Canaries to the New World

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 203-222

    5. The Mental Horizon

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 223-252

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 253-283
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Before Columbus

  • Book Subtitle: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492

  • Authors: Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18856-7

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 283

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History

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