1492-1648

Examines the nature of the interaction between Africa and Europe in the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries; and considers the role that those Africans who went to live in the non-African parts of the Atlantic played in their new societies, focusing on the economic, political, and cultural life of the transplanted Africans.

Presents an historical atlas of the cultural and political development of the Renaissance, and contains detailed maps, photographs, and illustrations that describe the major periods of Renaissance art and architecture, the Habsburg Wars, explorations, Tudor England, and the beginning of the Reformation.

Examines the successes and failures of some of the pioneering mariners who set out from Spain and Portugal beginning in the mid-fifteenth century to establish trade routes and explore new worlds.

Volume two of a two volume set containing essays on the history of Europe between 1400 and 1600. This volume focuses on the Reformation and how it impacted a variety of countries.

Explores Europe's cultural rebirth, showing how a return to classical Greek and Roman ideals and the invention of the Gutenberg printing press spawned the achievements of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare.

Text, maps, and illustrations reveal the art, architecture, trade, agriculture, religion, geographical discoveries, and other aspects of the Renaissance period throughout Europe.