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Nov 26, 2019 · Video. TV News Understanding 9/11. Featured. ... Columbus and the conquest of the impossible ... Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Publication date
May 5, 1992 · The Columbus of tradition shares a single canvas with the Columbus of fashion, the culture-hero of the western world with the bogey who exploited his fellow-man and despoiled his environment. Both versions are false and, if historians had their way, the quincentennial celebrations ought to stimulate enough educational work and research to ...
May 24, 2022 · The Year Our World Began: Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1492) Felipe Fernández-Armesto by Nicholas Ashley. The year 1492 famously brought Columbus’s discovery of a maritime route to America. This was, according to today’s guest Felipe Fernández-Armesto, ‘a world-changing event if ever there was one.’. But what else was happening in that ...
Jan 1, 1991 · Fernandez-Armesto paints a new picture of an ambitious, socially awkward parvenu, an autodidact who was intellectually aggressive but easily cowed, an embittered escapee from distressing realities, an adventurer inhibited by fear of failure. The author carefully places Columbus in the context of his society, describing in detail both the ...