Demonstrating that Columbus's voyage was a new step in a
centuries-old process of European expansion, Fernandez-Armesto
provides a stimulating account of the broadening of Europe's
physical and mental horizons in the Middle Ages. He shows how the
techniques and institutions of medieval colonial expansion that
were applied to the New World made long-term conquest and
settlement possible. A brief introduction analyzes the problems
that face students and historians. Then, concentrating on medieval
Spanish colonial development, but carefully linking that
development to the wider European process of expansion, the author
surveys the great areas of expansion in the Western Mediterranean:
the island conquests of the House of Barcelona; the "first Atlantic
Empire" in Andalusia, its environs, Valencia, and Murcia; the
Genoese Mediterranean; and the North African coast. In the last
four chapters, Fernandez-Armesto sketches the course and
characteristics of early European expansion of the Atlantic before
Columbus and highlights the impact of geography and anthropology on
the discovery of "the Atlantic space." The emphasis throughout is
on tracing the elements of continuity and discontinuity between
Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds and studying how colonial
societies originate and behave.
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