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- Author: John Horace Parry
- Publisher: Univ of California Press
- ISBN: 9780520042353
- Category : Colonization
- Languages : en
- Pages : 388
Covers the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world, beginning with the mid-fifteenth century and ending 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. The author examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprise at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.