Table of Contents
1 "This World Is Small": Prophecy and Reality in 1492 1
2 "To Constitute Spain to the Service of God": The Extinction of Islam in Western Europe 27
3 "I Can See the Horsemen": The Strivings of Islam in Africa 55
4 "No Sight More Pitiable": The Mediterranean World and the Redistribution of the Sephardim 87
5 "Is God Angry with Us"": Culture and Conflict in Italy 115
6 Toward "the Land of Darkness": Russia and the Eastern Marches of Christendom 147
7 "That Sea of Blood": Columbus and the Transatlantic Link 177
8 "Among the Singing Willows": China, Japan, and Korea 205
9 "The Seas of Milk and Butter": The Indian Ocean Rim 241
10 "The Fourth World": Indigenous Societies in the Atlantic and the Americas 273
Epilogue: The World We're In 311
Notes 323
Provenance of Illustrations 337
Index 339