Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529, Hardcover - Donald E. Chipman

Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529 is, by design, an approachable and accessible history of s...

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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 surprising story of how the children of the vanquished retained their rights and privileges in colonial Mexico.

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

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...

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When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people....

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The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, a female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish Americ...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the New World, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: The Americas: A Cap...

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

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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...

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DescriptionByzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and ...

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From obscure beginnings, over the centuries the Lovells rose in wealth and power through service to the crown and held an influential position at t...

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The epic story of the first Greco-Persian War and the Persian invasion of Europe and Greece.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Manousos E K...

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Traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican ...