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1492: Not Simply the YearColumbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . . In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern worldback to that single fateful year when everything changed.
The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of Americas Hispanic past. With the profile o
Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To the author,