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William D. Phillips, Jr. & Carla Rahn Phillips.
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 1992.
ISBN 0521350972;
ISBN-13 9780521350976.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 159×235×22mm.
Page count: xii,322pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit scuffed and ruffled, somewhat yellowed with age on its unprinted side; the boards and spine also a bit discoloured with age, but in other respects the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £26.00]
Weight without packaging: 611g.

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Contents: Worlds of Christopher Columbus; Old worlds in isolation; Quest for trade & Christians; Tools of expansion; Columbus’s early years in Genoa & Portugal; Columbus in Spain; First voyage; Columbus & the new world; Conquest & colonization — Spain in the Caribbean; Coercion & commerce — birth of empire; Post-Columbian world.

Illustrations: 41, monochrome
Maps & plans: 8

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 12pp
Index: yes

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