Age of Discovery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Age of Discovery write by Ian Goldin. This book was released on 2016-05-24. Age of Discovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to recognize the fact—and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age of Discovery shows how. Now is the best moment in history to be alive, but we have never felt more anxious or divided. Human health, aggregate wealth and education are flourishing. Scientific discovery is racing forward. But the same global flows of trade, capital, people and ideas that make gains possible for some people deliver big losses to others—and make us all more vulnerable to one another. Business and science are working giant revolutions upon our societies, but our politics and institutions evolve at a much slower pace. That’s why, in a moment when everyone ought to be celebrating giant global gains, many of us are righteously angry at being left out and stressed about where we’re headed. To make sense of present shocks, we need to step back and recognize: we’ve been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, likewise redrew all maps of the world, democratized communication and sparked a flourishing of creative achievement. But their world also grappled with the same dark side of rapid change: social division, political extremism, insecurity, pandemics and other unintended consequences of discovery. Now is the second Renaissance. We can still flourish—if we learn from the first.
The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600
The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 write by David Arnold. This book was released on 2013-09-27. The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and established links with Africa, Asia and the Americas. This book examines the main motivations behind the voyages and discusses the developments in navigation expertise and technology that made them possible. This second edition brings the scholarship up to date and includes two new chapters on the important topics of the idea of "discovery" and on biological and environmental factors which favoured or limited European expansion.
Age of Discovery
Age of Discovery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Age of Discovery write by Captivating History. This book was released on 2020-05. Age of Discovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration. This was a time when the people of Europe began to travel, discover, and explore more of the world than ever before, mapping and naming the places they found.
The Great Ages of Discovery
The Great Ages of Discovery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Ages of Discovery write by Stephen J. Pyne. This book was released on 2021-02-23. The Great Ages of Discovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that underwrote encounters, and the grand gestures that distill an age into its essence. Historian and MacArthur Fellow Stephen J. Pyne identifies three great ages of discovery in his fascinating new book. The first age of discovery ranged from the early 15th to the early 18th century, sketched out the contours of the globe, aligned with the Renaissance, and had for its grandest expression the circumnavigation of the world ocean. The second age launched in the latter half of the 18th century, spanning into the early 20th century, carrying the Enlightenment along with it, pairing especially with settler societies, and had as its prize achievement the crossing of a continent. The third age began after World War II, and, pivoting from Antarctica, pushed into the deep oceans and interplanetary space. Its grand gesture is Voyager’s passage across the solar system. Each age had in common a galvanic rivalry: Spain and Portugal in the first age, Britain and France—followed by others—in the second, and the USSR and USA in the third. With a deep and passionate knowledge of the history of Western exploration, Pyne takes us on a journey across hundreds of years of geographic trekking. The Great Ages of Discovery is an interpretive companion to what became Western civilization’s quest narrative, with the triumphs and tragedies that grand journey brought, the legacies of which are still very much with us.
The Age of Reconnaissance
The Age of Reconnaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Reconnaissance write by John Horace Parry. This book was released on 1981. The Age of Reconnaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world, beginning with the mid-fifteenth century and ending 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. The author examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprise at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.
