1492: The Year Our World Began
Feb 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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'Fernández-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded in research, insightfully critical, and written with grace' Literary Review
'Filled with marvels and sensations rich in description and replete with anecdote ... A compendium of delights' The Times
The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began.
In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world.
Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.
'Filled with marvels and sensations rich in description and replete with anecdote ... A compendium of delights' The Times
The world would end in 1492 - so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began.
In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world.
Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith - all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.
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About the author
Felipe Fernández-Armesto was born in London in 1950. His books include Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan, The Times Atlas of World Exploration, Columbus, Edward Gibbon's Atlas of the World, Barcelona: a Thousand Years of the City's Past, Millennium and Food: A History. Translations of his work have appeared in twenty languages and he has been shortlisted for numerous prizes. He is vice president of the Hakluyt Society. He holds the William P. Reynolds Chair of the University of Notre Dame, where he is a professor of history and, concurrently, of classics and of the history and philosophy of science.
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