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Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
1492: The Year Our World Began.
Published London: Bloomsbury, 2011 (original edn. was HarperCollins, 2009).
ISBN 9781408809501.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives plc.
Size: 128x197x22mm.
Page count: vi,346pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild creasing on the front cover, and a little wear at the edges and corners; the spine is slightly skewed but not creased from reading; previous owner’s rubber stamp inside the front cover, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £8.99]
Weight without packaging: 255g.

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Contents: Prophecy & reality in 1492; Extinction of Islam in western Europe; Strivings of Islam in Africa; Mediterranean world & redistribution of the Sephardim; Culture & conflict in Italy; Russia & the eastern marches of Christendom; Columbus & the transatlantic link; China, Japan & Korea; Indian Ocean rim; Indigenous societies in the Atlantic & Americas.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 23, monochrome
Maps & plans: 8
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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