The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650 - Softcover

Parry, J. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520042352 ISBN 13: 9780520042353

Publisher: University of California Press, 1982

Synopsis

The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. Dr. Parry examines the inducements―political, economic, religious―to overseas enterprises at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.

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The Age of Reconnaissance, as J.H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the 'Reconnaissance' was all but complete.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520042352
• ISBN 13: 9780520042353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384