Exploration and Conquest

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

Reducere. Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas, but his voyages led to European exploration of the New World. Rich in resources an...

Reducere. "The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fr mont that has appeared to date"--Howard R. Lamar, Yale UniversityThe career ...

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

Read how Gloriana reigned in dazzling majesty over an exciting new age of exploration, discovery, artistic brilliance, architectural achievement, f...

The Anglo-Saxons held sway in this country from the time the Romans departed until the Norman Conquest; a period of over 600 years, in other words ...

A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eu...

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

In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic. Yet Franklin, his ships an...

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

This sweeping, multidisciplinary exploration of the major epidemics since the Black Death reveals the impact of diseases ranging from bubonic plagu...

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...

Reducere. A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Austra...

Reducere. First published in the early 1970s, Tree of Hate is Philip Powell's exploration of "the Black Legend"--the popular myth that colonial Spain and her...

Reducere. In-depth, illustrated exploration of how early North African Christians lived out their faith Using a combination of literary and archeological evi...

Reducere. Since the times of ancient European civilizations, overseas exploration and trade have been an important part of European life and culture. This bo...

Reducere. Demonstrating that Columbus's voyage was a new step in a centuries-old process of European expansion, Fernandez-Armesto provides a stimulating acco...

DescriptionA richly illustrated, foldout graphic history of the United States, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.North American history unfo...

An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alex...

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides...

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. I...

Reducere. "George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you'll never think o...

DescriptionAn exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonia...

Abandoned Florida: Sunshine Sentinels is a stunning visual survey of Florida's historic coastal defenses--those sun-faded outposts of empire, crumb...

Reducere. This is the story of a legendary expedition across four thousand miles of the future United States, led by an explorer searching for an illusionary...

Reducere. While blacks have played an important role--as explorers, scouts, Indian consorts, soldiers, cowboys, farmers--in the exploration, conquest, and se...

Reducere. Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier...

Historian M. B. Synge narrates how naval power grew in importance from the 1700s onward, playing a decisive role in the victories of several nation...