Strike Fear in the Land, Volume 279: Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520-1541, Hardcover - W. George Lovell

Reducere. The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it...

By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian Ge...

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. Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionRecounts the settlement of coastal Georgia, the development of the plantation aristocracy and the dreary days of War and Reconstruction....

Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and G...

Reducere. The Mitfords had style and presence and were mercilessly gifted. Above all, they were funny--hilariously and mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhand...

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....

Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleans...

DescriptionThe long-awaited second edition of this classic textbook expands on the first edition to include advances made in the last four decades,...

Self-taught Georgia artist Eddie Owens Martin (1908-86), known as St. EOM, created a visionary art site called Pasaquan in the mid-1950s in Marion ...

DescriptionThe Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. ...

Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policie...

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...

Publisher: University of Texas PressAuthor(s): Angelica Jimena Afanador-PujolIllustration(s): 26 color and 51 b&w photos, 11 b&w illus.Number of pa...

Contributor(s): Author: David E. StannardFor four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 149...

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...

Reducere. The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Originally written in French, it first appeared as a series...

Reducere. The Age Book of the Year 2012 'A first-class piece of historical writing' - The Sunday Age Shortlisted for the Australian History Prize in the 2012...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Peter KropotkinEditor: Andrea GouveiaTranslator: Andrea GouveiaThe Conquest of Bread is a book by the anarchist communist P...

Reducere. 'The Conquest of Bread' is one of Kropotkin's most significant contributions to anarchist thought. He reviews past revolutions in France of 1789, 1...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Robert Merry's brilliant and highly acclaimed history of a crucial epoch in U.S. histor...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It is quite time that our children were taught a l...

Between 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the recor...

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

The real history of the struggle between Native Americans and white settlers

Describes and analyses the campaigns that saw the rise of the Roman empire in the East.Illustrations: 17 black and white illustrations

Reducere. Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and t...

Lightning and forest fires could strike terror in primitive humans, yet they also cherished fire as a life-giving gift from the gods. Eberhard Arno...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Fall of Wisconsin is a deeply reported, searing account of how the state's progressive tradition was undone and Wisconsin itself tur...