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The worlds of Christopher Columbus

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
Print Book, English, 1992
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1992
Biography
xii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780521350976, 9780521446525, 0521350972, 052144652X
23765696
The worlds of Christopher Columbus
Old worlds in isolation
The quest for trade and Christians
Tools of expansion
Columbus's early years in Genoa and Portugal
Columbus in Spain
The first voyage
Columbus and the New World
Conquest and colonization : Spain in the Caribbean
Coercion and commerce : the birth of empire
The post-Columbian world