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Item Details
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COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD
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| By: |
Joseph C. Schnaubelt (Editor), Frederick Van Fleteren (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£28.30 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820452556 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820452555 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2001 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Series: |
American University Studies, Series 9: History 185 |
| Pages: |
207 |
| Synopsis: |
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1998. ill. American University Studies: Series 9, History. Vol. 185. Columbus and the New World presents a series of essays on the background and the prelude to Columbus's voyage, on the voyage of the discovery itself, and its aftermath. Contents: Thomas A. Losoncy: Preface - Kay Brigham: The Importance of the Book of Prophecies in Understanding Columbus - Vernon Bourke: Augustine and Columbus' Voyages - Allan Back: Avicenna in the Age of Columbus - George Saliba: Arabic Astronomy during the Age of Discovery - David Buisseret: The Cartographic Background to the Voyages of Columbus - Delno C. West: The Imagined World of Christopher Columbus - James E. Kelley, Jr.: Columbus's Navigation: Fifteenth-Century Technology in Search of Contemporary Understanding - James M. Muldoon: The Medieval Church-State Conflict in the New World - William H. McNeill: Biological and Ecological Repercussions of the Opening of the Oceans after 1492. |
| Illustrations: |
ill. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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