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A Beautiful Ending

The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations

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John Jeffries Martin is professor and former chair of the Department of History at Duke University. His books include Venice’s Hidden Enemies and Myths of Renaissance Individualism. He lives in Hillsborough, NC.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Introduction

    1
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    1 The Apocalyptic Braid

    13
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    2 Publishing the Apocalypse

    35
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    3 Christopher Columbus

    56
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    4 Conquest and Utopia

    75
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    5 The Last World Emperor

    92
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    6 Antichrist and Reformation

    112
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    7 “No One Knows the Hour”

    133
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    8 Battles for God

    150
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    9 The Spiritual Globe

    169
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    10 Cannibals

    187
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    11 The Restitution of All Things

    206
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    12 Crossing the Pillars of Hercules

    225
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    Epilogue

    242
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    Acknowledgments

    251
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    Notes

    255
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    Illustration Credits

    307
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    Index

    311
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May 3, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780300265446
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384
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30 b-w illus.
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