THE CHASM SPANNED: THE SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL OF ATLANTIC LINKS VOYAGES OF BOUNTY: THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WORLD RESOURCESĮmpires of the Dandelion-The Precious Commodities-The Industrious East-The Growl of the Tiger-The Industrial West The New Canaan-Self-Evident Truths-The Fine-Feathered Serpent- The Creoles of Yankee Country-Riding the Crocodile-The Spittle of Democracy 12 THE ATLANTIC CHASM: FISSURES AND FRACTURES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD THE TANGLE OF TRADE: EARLY MODERN LONG-RANGE COMMERCEĬhinese Fortunes-Outcasts of the Islands-The Venice of the North- The Feast of the Dead-The Age of Irish Madeira The Road to Bali-The Infidel Within-The Spiritual Conquests of Christendom-The Scales of Faith 10 THE EMBRACE OF EVANGELIZATION: REFORM AND EXPANSION OF EARLY MODERN RELIGIONS Lands So Wonderful-The Pioneer Mind-The involuntary Colonists- The Indigenous Victims-Touchpoints at the Rim of Empire 9 THE TOUCH OF EMPIRE: COLONIZATION ON EARLY MODERN FRONTIERS The Turtle Armada-The Corners of the Carpet-The Colour of the Bear-The Impossible Empires-The Highway of the World 8 THE REACH OF CONQUEST: IMPERIALISMS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD The Maya Renaissance-The Screen of Hindsight-The Black Empires-AM Empire Built on Sand-The Aztec Memory-The Frustrated Empires 7 SHY AND RETIRING EMPIRES: EXPANDING STATES IN LATE MEDIEVAL AFRICA AND AMERICA The Stranger in the Glass-The Enlarged Horizon-Enemies of Promise-The Divisions of Latin Christendom-The Age of Fool's Gold-The Errant Spirit 7 The Modest Pavilion-The Yaks' Tail-bearers-The Lands of Many Parasols-The Ming Menagerie-The Bright Dynasty 5Ī SMALL PROMONTORY OF ASIA: LATIN CHRISTENDOM IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES THE WORLD BEHIND THE WIND: CHINA AND HER NEIGHBOURS FROM THE SUNG TO THE MING
The Stones of Iconium-The Serpent in the Garden-The Zengid Empire-The Fingers of the Khan-The Auspicious Amir-Frontiers of Islam-The View from the Mimbar 4 THE TOWER OF DARKNESS: ISLAM IN THE FIRST HALF OF OUR MILLENNIUM The Perfect Barbarians-The Clash of Two Christendoms-The Business of the Turks-The Rise of the Third Rome-The Mad Planet 3 THE COCKPIT OF ORTHODOXY: MEDIEVAL EASTERN CHRISTENDOM The Empire of Sensibility-The Garden of islam-The Divided Heaven-The Civilization of the Barbarians 2 "ĭISCRETE WORLDS: SOME CIVILIZATIONS A THOUSAND YEARS AGO If all the places of the earth are in the Aleph, then all sources of illumination, all lamps, all veins of light are there. "But isn 't the cellar very dark?" "Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. "Yes, the place where all the places of the world meet without mingling, beheld from every possible angle at once. Si todos los lugares de la tierra están en el Aleph, ahí estarán todos los luminarios, todas las lámparas, todos los veneros de luz.
no es muy oscuro el sótano? - La verdad no penetra en un entendimiento rebelde. Si, el lugar donde están, sin confundirse, todos los lugares del orbe, vistos desde todos los ángulos. And all the writers, when they would give weight and authority to their opinions, quote the dead and the orators who preach and lecture-are not their mouths filled with words that the dead have spoken? Why, man, our lives follow grooves that the dead have run out with their thumbnails! M. Look you, man, how they work their will upon us! Who have made the laws? The dead! Who have made the customs that we obey and that form and shape our lives? The dead! And the titles to our lands? Have not the dead devised them? If a surveyor runs a line he begins at some corner the dead set up and if one goes to law upon a question the judge looks backward through his books until he finds how the dead have settled it-and he follows that. Includes bibliographical references and index. Millennium : a history of the last thousand years / Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Designed by Irving Perkins Associates Manufactured in the United States of America 10 First Charles Scribner's Sons Edition 1995 Published by arrangement with Transworld Publishers Limited SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc. Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 1995 by Felipe Fernández-Armesto All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. I CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Simon & Schuster Inc. MILLENNIUM A History of the Last Thousand Years FELIPE Also b y Felipe Fernández-Armesto The Canary Islands After the Conquest Before Columbus The Spanish Armada Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past Columbus General Editor, The Times Atlas of World Exploration Columbus on Himself Edward Gibbon's Atlas of the World Editor, The Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe Editor, The European Opportunity Editor, The Global Opportunity
0 kommentar(er)
