Before Columbus : exploration and colonisation from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492 / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

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_ From the Mediterranean ... -- The Island Conquests of the House of Bargelona -- Majorca, ´The Kingdom in the Sea´ -- Ibiza and Formentera -- ´Proceeding Eastwards´: Minorca and Sardinia -- Aragon´s Dynastic ´Empire´ -- The First ´Atlantic´ Empire: Andalusia and its Environs -- The Conquest of Upper Andalusia -- The Conquest of Seville -- The Fate of the Moors -- The Nature of Settlement -- A Mediterranean Land Empire: Sharq al Andalus -- Valencia and Northern Murcia: Conquest and Division -- Colonial Society in Valencia -- Southern Murcia -- An Imperial Formation -- The Genoese Mediterranean -- The ´Absence´ of the State -- The Sovereign Colonies -- ´Ambivalence´: Typical Genoese Colonisation and Trade -- The Transmission of Genoese Influence -- The Rim of Africa -- The Condition of the Maghrib -- The Aragonese Protectorate -- The Merchant Colonists -- The Lure of the Gold Trade -- To the Atlantic -- Mapping the Eastern Atlantic -- The Early Phases of Atlantic Navigation -- The Exploration of the Canaries -- The Mapping of the Archipelagoes -- The ´Unknown Pilots´ -- The Atlantic Crucible -- Fourteenth-century Beginnings -- Bethencourt, La Salle and the Peraza -- The Islands of the Infantes -- The Rounding of Africa´s Bulge -- The Portuguese Colonies -- From the Canaries to the New World -- The Context of Columbus -- The Last Canarian Conquests -- Granada, the Canaries and America -- The ´Rise´ of Portugal and Castile -- The Mental Horizon -- The ´Discovery of Man´ -- The Image of the World.