Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950) is a British professor of history and author of several popular works, notably on cultural and environmental history.
Books in order of publication:
Columbus and the Conquest of the Impossible (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974)
Ferdinand and Isabella (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975)
The Canary Islands after the Conquest: The Making of a Colonial Society in the Sixteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 1982)
Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229–1492 (University of Pennsylvania Pr, 1987)
The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588 (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Columbus (Oxford University Press, 1991)
Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City’s Past (Trafalgar Square, 1991)
The Times Illustrated History of Europe (Times Books, 1995)
Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years (Bantam Press, 1995)
Reformation: Christianity and the World 1500-2000 (Bantam Press, 1996) or Reformations: A Radical Interpretation of Christianity and the World, 1500-2000 (Scribner, 1997) (co-authored with Derek Wilson)
Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed (Bantam Press, 1997)
Civilizations (Macmillan, 2000) or Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature (Free Press, 2001)
Food: A History (Macmillan, 2001) or Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food (Free Press, 2002)
The Americas: A Hemispheric History (Modern Library, 2003) or The Americas: A History of A Hemisphere (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
Ideas That Changed the World (Dorling Kindersley, 2003)
Humankind: A Brief History (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (W. W. Norton, 2006; Oxford University Press, 2007)
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006; Random House, 2007)
The World: A Brief History (Pearson, 2007)
1492. The Year the World Began (HarperOne, 2009; Bloomsbury, 2010)
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States (W. W. Norton & Co., 2014)
A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change–and the Limits of Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2015)
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It (Oneworld, 2019)
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan (Bloomsbury, 2022)
How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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