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The great ages of discovery : how western civilization learned about a wider world /
For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that underwrote en...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: Europe on the Edge
- BOOK I. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
- 1. The Renaissance Explores
- 2. Sails for the Wind to Fill
- 3. God, Gold, and Glory
- 4. Where No Human Being Ever Sailed
- 5. Isles
- 6. Portuguese Paradigm
- 7. The Armada de Molucca Circumnavigates the Globe
- 8. Encountering
- 9. The Other New World
- 10. The Great Conjunction
- 11. The Discoverers and the Discovered
- 12. Ebb Tide
- BOOK II. CORPS OF DISCOVERY
- 1. The Enlightenment Explores
- 2. Grand Tours and Great Excursions
- 3. Motives and Motivators
- 4. Something Old, Something New
- 5. Alexander von Humboldt Ascends the Heights
- 6. Crossing Continents
- 7. Second Looks, Repeat Encounters
- 8. Lost Horizons
- BOOK III. MISSIONS OF DISCOVERY
- 1. Modernism Explores
- 2. The Great Game Goes Global, and Beyond
- 3. Ice
- 4. Space
- 5. Abyss
- 6. Modern Exploration, Modernist Paradox
- 7. Voyager Traverses the Solar System
- 8. New Realms, New Regimes
- 9. Before and After
- 10. Looking Back, Looking Ahead
- Epilogue: Earth on the Edge
- Author's Note
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index