In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the world known to western Europeans was enlarged in a way unparalleled before or since.
This 1956 book, which developed from the Prince Consort Prize Essay of 1952, tells the life story of Hugh du Puiset. Charming,... Læs mere