Download or read book Canarias e Inglaterra a trav s de la historia written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Viajeros ingleses en las Islas Canarias durante el siglo XIX written by José Luis García Pérez and published by Ediciones IDEA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historias en la Piedra La escritura ltima en los cementerios ingleses de Canarias written by Manuel Ramírez Sánchez and published by Dykinson. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este libro se realiza un acercamiento inédito a la presencia británica en las islas Canarias a través del estudio de los monumentos funerarios que se conservan en los tres cementerios protestantes que existen aún en el Archipiélago. El estudio de estas escrituras últimas, siguiendo la definición del paleógrafo italiano Armando Petrucci, permite conocer desde una nueva perspectiva la evolución de la actitud ante la muerte de la comunidad británica residente en un país católico como España, desde la época victoriana hasta mediados del pasado siglo. A través del análisis de sus inscripciones, pero también del simbolismo de los propios monumentos, en su mayoría importados del Reino Unido, es posible reconstruir las historias personales, pero también las mentalidades de aquellas personas que descansan en paz en un territorio muy alejado del que les vio nacer. Manuel Ramírez Sánchez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1967), es Profesor Titular de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas en la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, en cuya Facultad de Geografía e Historia imparte docencia desde 1993. Licenciado en Geografía e Historia en la Universidad de Salamanca en 1991, se doctora en la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria en 1999, obteniendo el Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado en esta Universidad. Sus intereses en materia de investigación se centran en el estudio de la epigrafía hispánica en época antigua, así como en la recuperación de los modelos epigráficos romanos durante el Renacimiento. Su interés por el estudio de las escrituras expuestas, desde la Antigüedad hasta la Edad Moderna, le ha llevado a interesarse por el estudio de las inscripciones en contextos cronológicos más recientes, siempre desde la perspectiva de la historia social de la cultura escrita.
Download or read book Los ingleses en Canarias written by Víctor Morales Lezcano and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los ingleses en Canarias written by Víctor Morales Lezcano and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los Ingleses en las Islas Canarias written by Frances Latimer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlantic Ports and the First Globalisation c 1850 1930 written by Miguel Suárez Bosa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examining the ports of Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa, this volume will provide fresh insight into the meaning of the 'First Globalisation'.
Download or read book Spain Portugal and the Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe written by Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Its Christian kingdoms continued their advance against Al-Andalus up to 1492, whereas territorial expansion elsewhere against the Muslim world had either ceased or subsided by the late 13th century. Castile and Portugal also transformed the Atlantic Ocean from the inaccessible dead-end of Eurasia into the most promising avenue for European expansion for the first time in history. The articles collected in this volume explore the causes and the nature of this expansion, from a variety of historical traditions. They investigate the extent to which the ’transference’ of Mediterranean traditions aided this process; the characteristics of Iberian conflict that eventually led to the success of its Christian kingdoms; and the motives for launching, and techniques for running, the first European ’overseas empires’ in the unfolding Atlantic frontier. In the process they illuminate the new identities and cultural interactions that this expansion produced in its wake, while the new introduction sets them in the broader context.
Download or read book Descripci n e historia del reino de las Islas Canarias antes Afortunadas written by Leonardo Torriani and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civilizations written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To Fernández-Armesto, a civilization is "civilized in direct proportion to its distance, its difference from the unmodified natural environment"...by its taming and warping of climate, geography, and ecology. The same impersonal forces that put an ocean between Africa and India, a river delta in Mesopotamia, or a 2,000-mile-long mountain range in South America have created the mold from which humanity has fashioned its own wildly differing cultures. In a grand tradition that is certain to evoke comparisons to the great historical taxonomies, each chapter of Civilizations connects the world of the ecologist and geographer to a panorama of cultural history. In Civilizations, the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is not merely a Christian allegory, but a testament to the thousand-year-long deforestation of the trees that once covered 90 percent of the European mainland. The Indian Ocean has served as the world's greatest trading highway for millennia not merely because of cultural imperatives, but because the regular monsoon winds blow one way in the summer and the other in the winter. In the words of the author, "Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilizations, it is arranged environment by environment, rather than period by period, or society by society." Thus, seventeen distinct habitats serve as jumping-off points for a series of brilliant set-piece comparisons; thus, tundra civilizations from Ice Age Europe are linked with the Inuit of the Pacific Northwest; and the Mississippi mound-builders and the deforesters of eleventh-century Europe are both understood as civilizations built on woodlands. Here, of course, are the familiar riverine civilizations of Mesopotamia and China, of the Indus and the Nile; but also highland civilizations from the Inca to New Guinea; island cultures from Minoan Crete to Polynesia to Renaissance Venice; maritime civilizations of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea...even the Bushmen of Southern Africa are seen through a lens provided by the desert civilizations of Chaco Canyon. More, here are fascinating stories, brilliantly told -- of the voyages of Chinese admiral Chen Ho and Portuguese commodore Vasco da Gama, of the Great Khan and the Great Zimbabwe. Here are Hesiod's tract on maritime trade in the early Aegean and the most up-to-date genetics of seed crops. Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations is a remarkable achievement...a tour de force by a brilliant scholar.
Download or read book Canarias e Inglaterra written by Antonio de Béthencourt Massieu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amerigo written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer. In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a sometime slaver and small-time jewel trader; a contemporary, confidant, and rival of Columbus; an amateur sorcerer who attained fame and honor by dint of a series of disastrous failures and equally grand self-reinventions. Filled with well-informed insights and amazing anecdotes, this magisterial and compulsively readable account sweeps readers from Medicean Florence to the Sevillian court of Ferdinand and Isabella, then across the Atlantic of Columbus to the brave New World where fortune favored the bold. Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these pages as an irresistible avatar for the age of exploration–and as a man of genuine achievement as a voyager and chronicler of discovery. A product of the Florentine Renaissance, Amerigo in many ways was like his native Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century: fast-paced, flashy, competitive, acquisitive, and violent. His ability to sell himself–evident now, 500 years later, as an entire hemisphere that he did not “discover” bears his name–was legendary. But as Fernández-Armesto ably demonstrates, there was indeed some fire to go with all the smoke: In addition to being a relentless salesman and possibly a ruthless appropriator of other people’s efforts, Amerigo was foremost a person of unique abilities, courage, and cunning. And now, in Amerigo, this mercurial and elusive figure finally has a biography to do full justice to both the man and his remarkable era. “A dazzling new biography . . . an elegant tale.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An outstanding historian of Atlantic exploration, Fernández-Armesto delves into the oddities of cultural transmission that attached the name America to the continents discovered in the 1490s. Most know that it honors Amerigo Vespucci, whom the author introduces as an amazing Renaissance character independent of his name’s fame–and does Fernández-Armesto ever deliver.” –Booklist (starred review)
Download or read book Canarias e Inglaterra written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pathfinders written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about encounters between cultures and the outreach of ambitions, imaginations, efforts, and innovations that made them possible.
Download or read book Vasco Da Gama and the Linking of Europe and Asia written by Anthony R. Disney and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of thirty-one essays provides a thorough re-evaluation of Vasco Da Gama's voyage, the circumstances surrounding it, and its short- and long-term economic, cultural, political, and religious significance. The book challenges the view that Portuguese influence in maritime Asia was only minor.
Download or read book The Canary Islands written by Florence Du Cane and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a travel guide and description first published in the early 20th century. Florence's sister, Ella, has painted watercolor illustrations of the places visited. There are descriptions of all seven islands, but the majority of the work is about Tenerife and Grand Canary.
Download or read book Historia de la Literatura Espa ola written by Emilio González López and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
