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Autor:
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 275-286 (1982)
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https://doaj.org/article/eb4ea8c70fac487aaef91cbadd1d2250
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed
“A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others.”—Wall Street Journal The untold story of the engineeri
Autor:
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023This volume brings together 25 defining texts in global history. These pieces cover approaches to the subject from antiquity to the present century and, taken together, show the development of the discipline, pro
Autor:
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan. With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto subjects the surviving sources to the most meticulous scrutiny ever, providing a timely
Unanuevahistoria delImperioespañol. Existe una figura ambigua, a medio camino entre lo militar y lo civil, que no se terminó de definir hasta hace poco: el ingeniero. Este libro es una exploración fascinante de su papel central en la forja del Imp
Autor:
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses t
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
TO IMAGINE — to see that which is not there — is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand alone in our remarkable capacity to refashion the world after the pictures in ou
Autor:
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
'A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the history of human mental life.'—The Wall Street Journal To imagine—to see what is not there—is th
Autor:
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
These 15 articles follow on from those in The Global Opportunity in that they examine how and why the Europeans expanded worldwide. Part one explores the means in terms of science, technology and material resources; part two examines the motives, pri