From the Book - 1st pbk. ed.
"This world is small" : prophecy and reality in 1492
"To constitute Spain to the service of God" : the extinction of Islam in Western Europe
"I can see the horsemen" : the strivings of Islam in Africa
"No sight more pitiable" : the Mediterranean world and the redistribution of the Sephardim
"Is God angry with us?" : culture and conflict in Italy
Toward "the land of darkness" : Russia and the eastern marches of Christendom
"That sea of blood" : Columbus and the transatlantic link
"Among the singing willows" : China, Japan, and Korea
"The seas of milk and butter" : the Indian Ocean rim
"The fourth world" : indigenous societies in the Atlantic and the Americas
