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1434 : the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance / Gavin Menzies

By:

Menzies, Gavin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Harper Perennial , 2009, c2008.Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: xvi, 368 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780061492181

Other title:

Fourteen thirty-four

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

945 MEN

LOC classification:

G322 .M46 2008

Summary: The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today.--From amazon.com.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	945 MEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009138

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-345) and index.

The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today.--From amazon.com.

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