Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. 1. Expansion. The expansion of Europe I / William R. Shepherd
  • The American frontier-frontier of what? / Carlton J.H. Hayes
  • European colonial experience : a plea for comparative studies / Merril Jensen and Robert L. Reynolds
  • The significance of the frontier in the Middle Ages / Robert I. Burns
  • Medieval real estate developments and freedom / Bryce Lyon
  • Colonization activities in the Latin kingdom / Joshua Prawer
  • Missionary problems in the thirteenth century : a study in missionary preparation / Mathias Braun
  • Outsiders by birth and blood : racist ideologies and realities around the periphery of medieval European culture / Richard C. Hoffmann
  • Pt. 2. Contraction and redirection in the late Middle Ages. The closing of the medieval frontier, 1250-1350 / Archibald R. Lewis
  • The transfer of colonial techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic / Charles Verlinden
  • The medieval background of European and American oceanic history / Archibald R. Lewis
  • The Middle Ages in the conquest of America / Luis Weckmann
  • The Iberian background of Latin American history : recent progress and continuing problems / Charles Julian Bishko
  • The legacy of the Middle Ages in the American Wild West / Lynn White, Jr.
  • Pt. 3. Columbus. The pre-Columbian discovery of America / Jaime Cortesão
  • Christopher Columbus and his enterprise to the Indies : scholarship of last quarter century / Delno West
  • European expansion before Columbus : causes and consequences / Seymour Phillips
  • The inter-Atlantic paradigm : the failure of Spanish medieval colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands / Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo