{"title":"Felipe Fernandez-Armesto","description":"Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and an award-winning scholar and historian. His books include Straits. Manuel Lucena Giraldo is a research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council and an adjunct professor at IE University and ESCP Business School Europe. His books include Firsting in the Early Modern Atlantic World.","products":[{"product_id":"1492-the-year-the-world-began-paperback","title":"1492: The Year the World Began - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1492: Not Simply the YearColumbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . .\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fernández-Armesto traces key elements of the modern worldback to that single fateful year when everything changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1492: Not Simply the YearColumbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . .\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe Fern?ndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern worldback to that single fateful year when everything changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365569036511,"sku":"9780061132285","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iBTUKEvkoL9780061132285.webp?v=1789066416"},{"product_id":"how-the-spanish-empire-was-built-a-400-year-history-hardcover","title":"How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others.\"--\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. 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