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Exploration : a very short Introduction /

"We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weaver, Stewart Angas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Colección:Very short introductions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is (and is not) Exploration?
  • The Peopling of the Earth
  • First Forays
  • The Age of Exploration
  • Exploration and the Enlightenment
  • Exploration and Empire
  • The Ends of the Earth
  • Epilogue: Final Frontiers?