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Reducere. Soldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expedi...

Reducere. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Unabridged Edition (Vol.1-2).The author of this original and charming production, to whic...

Publisher: Daily Fairy Tales LtdAuthor(s): Francesca LombardoNumber of pages: 30Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 204 x 128 x 15Cover type: Paperba...

A story of love and conquest: love between Alva Tlacuilotl and one of the Emperor Moctezuma's daughters Tecuichpo, and also of friendship between t...

The Sirdar and the Khalifa examines Kitchener's campaign to re-conquer the Sudan and avenge the death of General Gordon: a war that began in 1896 a...

First written in French and originally appearing as a series of articles in 1892, "The Conquest of Bread" is the most famous and enduring work by P...

In early 2019, the Islamic Republic of Iran marked its fortieth anniversary, despite decades of isolation, political pressure, sanctions and war. O...

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It's 1066 - Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of England, in what will become ...

This book, "Strongbow's conquest of Ireland", by Francis Pierrepont Barnard, is a replication of a book originally published before 1888. It has be...

In 1531, Pizarro led a small but well trained army along the Pacific Coast of the unexplored South America. With less than 200 men, he conquered th...

Reducere. Seventeen sages respond to the destruction of Native American populations as evidenced in a variety of arenas--from law and literature to ecology a...

Reducere. Surviving Conquest is a history of the Yavapai Indians, who have lived for centuries in central Arizona. Although primarily concerned with survival...

DescriptionThe concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one...

Reducere. One of the founding Classics of Anarchist literature, Peter Kropotkin's book is a thoughtful, humane and detailed critique of capitalism, a system ...

Reducere. In this iconoclastic book, Francis Jennings recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. The traditional history of early ...

Reducere. PHILIP MARSDEN: Like Tolstoy's, Lesley Blanch's sense of history is ultimately convincing not because of any sweeping theses, but because of its pa...

'Abbe Faujas has arrived ' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the f...

Reducere. Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the...

Reducere. Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cort s in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521....

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Reducere. This work of comparative history explores the array of ceremonies that the English, the Spanish, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch performed...

Reducere. In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes the...

The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society. Seeking to...

Reducere. Miss Payton Peppiwell has had enough of lords and the scrutiny of high society. After the ton's fickleness leads to her being jilted and the result...

Extensive coverage of the arrangements for the defence of Burma and the characteristics of the country. Describes the Japanese invasion, from Malay...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

Reducere. A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts Previous accounts of the fall...

The Harrying of the North...In 1069 Northumbria is in revolt against Norman rule. William the Conqueror's brutal reprisal devastates the province a...

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Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Norman Conquest, then pay attention...The year 1066 CE is one of the largest turning points ...

DescriptionIn 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army then ever raised by an English monarch to invade France. This book investigates the consequence...

DescriptionThe former French colony of Acadia--permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territ...

Reducere. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1, 200 serfs. As he aged, he came to hate the inequality in his society, and renounced...

Did you ever hear the saying "there are two sides to every story?" This is especially true for major events in history. The details of the same eve...

The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the inters...

Reducere. From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond ...

Reducere. The Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet t...

Reducere. Historians are concerned today that the Spaniards' early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas should be balanced wi...

Reducere. The American people overwhelmingly supported the nation's entry into the Spanish-American War of 1898, which led to U.S. imperial expansion into th...

Savannah, Augusta and Brier Creek examines the British conquest of Georgia during the American Revolution from several perspectives. The first part...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africa provides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themes and debates concerning the hi...

Thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest scholarship, the Second Edition of this established text features entirely new sections on: *...

A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.

A study of the first encounters between Spanish explorers and the indigenous tribes of the Americas, this work focuses on the life and times of Fra...

DescriptionFrom flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrou...

Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

Title: A new account of some parts of Guinea, and the slave-trade: containing I. The history of the late conquest of the kingdom of Whidaw by the k...

Contributor(s): Author: Edith Eudora Ammons KohlIntroduction by: Clifford T. AmmonsIn "Land of the Burnt Thigh, " Edith Kohl provides a first-hand ...

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Reducere. Conquistador Voices, a two-volume work by Kevin H. Siepel, is intended for the general reader. The book presents the history of the Spanish Conques...

The Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwat...

Reducere. Newly victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar, England now rules the seas and is free to colonize the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Thomas K...

Reducere. Between 1539 and 1542, two thousand indigenous Mexicans, led by Spanish explorers, made an armed reconnaissance of what is now the American Southwe...

Reducere. The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American ...

Reducere. A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region...

Reducere. The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. ...

Reducere. Jashi Anyua has been arranged to be married to the leader of her nation, the Great Faresh. To help her escape the unwanted engagement, her future h...

Explains how the Ottoman Turks conquered South East Europe. Sets the final fall of the Roman Byzantine Empire in its full context.

I Was There... 1066 tells the thrilling story of a young page boy at the heart of the Battle of Hastings. Edwin risks everything to infiltrate the ...

A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communi...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Helen PfeiferIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

Reducere. Easwaran takes the timeless teachings of the Buddha and other mystics and shows how we can train the mind not just during meditation but throughout...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Anglo-Saxons, then keep reading... There was a time before England was united. Th...

Reducere. DescriptionIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25, 000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a h...

DescriptionCalifornia's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was c...

Reducere. The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la con...