1492: Not Simply the Year Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . .
In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single fateful year when everything changed.
1 "This World Is Small": Prophecy and Reality in 1492
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2 "To Constitute Spain to the Service of God": The Extinction of Islam in Western Europe
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3 "I Can See the Horsemen": The Strivings of Islam in Africa
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4 "No Sight More Pitiable": The Mediterranean World and the Redistribution of the Sephardim
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5 "Is God Angry with Us?": Culture and Conflict in Italy
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6 Toward "the Land of Darkness": Russia and the Eastern Marches of Christendom
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7 "That Sea of Blood": Columbus and the Transatlantic Link
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8 "Among the Singing Willows": China, Japan, and Korea
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9 "The Seas of Milk and Butter": The Indian Ocean Rim
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10 "The Fourth World": Indigenous Societies in the Atlantic and the Americas
