The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire

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How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to...

Reducere. Book II in The Story of the World series, by M. B. Synge, "The Discovery of New Worlds" relates the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the middle a...

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In this up-to-date and engaging tour of Spain through the ages, one of the world's leading authorities on the history of Spain, Sir Raymond Carr, p...