Events That Changed the World Through the Sixteenth Century: (The Greenwood Press "Events That Changed the World" Series)

Table of Contents:
Preface The Reconquista, c.711-1492 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Pamela Beattie The Renaissance, c. 1300-1630 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Blake Beattie The Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Daniel Webster Hollis, III The Ming Dynasty Comes to Power, 1368-1431 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Lung-kee Sun The Age of European Expansion Begins, c. 1450-c.1525 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Steven E. Siry The Development of Movable Type, c. 1450 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Alison Gulley The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 Introduction Interpretive Essay by John K. Cox The Conquest of the New World, 1492-c. 1550 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Clifford Staten The Protestant Reformation, c. 1517-1648 Introduction Interpretive Essay by Ineke Justiz The Spanish Armada Introduction Interpretive Essay by Connie S. Evans Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Timeline Appendix C: Ruling Houses and Dynasties Index

About the Author :
FRANK W. THACKERAY is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast. He is author of Antecedents of Revolution: Alexander I and_ the Polish Kingdom (1980) and the co-editor (with John E. Findling) of the Events That Changed the World series and the The Events That Changed America series, both published by Greenwood. Also with John E. Findling, he is co-editor of Statesmen Who Changed the World (1993). He and Findling are also series editors of the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series. JOHN E. FINDLING is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast. He is the author of Dictionary of American Diplomatic History (1980-89), Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: United States-Central American Relations (1987), and Chicago's Great World's Fairs (1995). With Kimberly D. Pelle, he co-edited Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988 (1990) and Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement (1996). With Frank W. Thackeray, he is co-editor of the Events That Changed the World series and the Events That Changed America series and also series editor of the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series.