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The European opportunity
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- Creator
- [edited by] Felipe Fernández Armesto
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, French
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Aldershot, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, ©1995
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0860785017, 9780860785019
- OCLC
- ocm31938312
- Collection of previously published material, 1960-1992.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes three articles in French.
- Geography in fifteenth-century Florence / Thomas Goldstein -- Navigation primitive et navigation astronomique / Paul Adam -- Portuguese shipbuilding and the early voyages to the Guinea Coast / Richard W. Unger -- Le rôle des capitaux internationaux dans les voyages et découvertes au XVe et XVIe siècles / Jacques Heers -- Italian influences in Iberian colonization / Charles Verlinden -- Prince Henry the Navigator / P.E. Russell -- Fernand Colomb et le traité d'astrologie d'Henri le Navigateur / Guy Beaujouan -- Back to gold -- and silver / Andrew H. Watson -- The quest for Prester John / C.F. Beckingham -- Prophecy and discovery : on the spiritual origins of Christopher Columbus's "enterprise of the Indies" / Pauline Moffitt Watts -- The transfer of colonial techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic / Charles Verlinden -- The Castilian as plainsman / Charles Julian Bishko -- Atlantic exploration before Columbus : the evidence of maps / Felipe Fernández-Armesto -- European merchants in the medieval Indies : the evidence of commercial documents / Robert S. Lopez -- Frontier arrangements in fragmented societies : Ireland and Wales / Rees Davies