Europe 1492: Portrait of a Continent Five Hundred Years Ago - Hardcover

Cardini, Franco

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9780816021888: Europe 1492: Portrait of a Continent Five Hundred Years Ago

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ISBN 10: 0816021880 ISBN 13: 9780816021888

Publisher: Facts on File, 1989

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Describes life in Europe in 1492, and discusses government, religion, culture, and social conditions

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

From Library Journal:

Cardini makes exaggerated claims for the modernity of the age of Columbus. He asserts that the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 "ushered in a new age of systematic persecutions . . . eventually leading to the ghettoes, the pogroms, and . . . extermination camps." He states that Ferdinand and Isabella laid "the groundwork for a centralized government for their two kingdoms" by their administrative reforms; instead, the bulk of their actions confirmed regional privilege and the separate government of their kingdoms; the kingdoms seemed united because ruled by spouses. It is an awkward leap from Alberti's essays in city planning to "the new-order restructurings and foundations of the European totalitarian regimes of the 1920s and 1930s." The repeated use of pseudoscientisms is not matched by a corresponding precision of thought or content. This is a book of flash and filigree, attractive but insubstantial. Not recommended. BOMC alternate.
- David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica
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