The Establishment of the European Hegemony, 1415-1715

By J.H. Parry,

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This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.

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1 author picked The Establishment of the European Hegemony, 1415-1715 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

When I was first attracted to exploration history, I was mostly interested in the 19th and 20th centuries, but wanting to understand its pedigree, I searched back to the great voyages of the Renaissance and kept running into books by Parry. He’s everywhere, and always insightful.

His most widely read book is The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650. But despite its clunky title, Establishment is my favorite because it distills the whole story – its events, its technology, its intellectual foundations – into almost crystalline form. A wonderful place to begin, or to return to and…

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