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Destino Espana/ Destiny Spain: Espana a Travez De the New York Times

Hugh Thomas; Barbara Kingsolver; Anthony Burgess

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Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

Hugh Thomas

From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.

Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.

Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem.

The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims.
Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives.

Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.


From the Hardcover edition.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

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El Imperio Espanol

Hugh Thomas

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

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Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

Hugh Thomas

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The Strange Death of Heinrich Himmler: A Forensic Investigation

Hugh Thomas; W. Hugh Thomas

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Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom

Hugh Thomas

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The Spanish Civil War

Hugh Thomas

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994, Hardcover - 1986, 1977

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Who's Who of the Conquistadors

Hugh Thomas

Until recently, only a few leaders were well known among the Spanish warriors who brutally subjugated the Mayan and Aztec empires of Mexico. Now over 2,000 biographies shed dramatic new light on the conquistadors who made 1519-1521 the bloodiest two-year period in the Western Hemisphere. The world's leading authority on the subject tells who they were, what roles they played, their histories, backgrounds, and relationships, based on previously unpublished material in both Mexico and Spain.

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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870

Hugh Thomas

In a balanced approach to an explosive subject, a history professor portrays the rise, apogee, and decline of the slave trade, exposing its impact on world politics and civilization. of photos. Maps.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997

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The Future of Europe: Predictions

Hugh Thomas

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La Revolucion Cubana: Iberoamerica En La Encrucijada

Hugh Thomas

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Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom

Hugh Thomas

Now substantially updated, this volume describes and analyzes Cuba's history, from the English capture of Havana in 1762 through Spanish colonialism, American imperialism, from the Cuban Revolution to the Missile Crisis to Fidel Castro's defiant but precarious present state. Illustrations & maps.

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The Murder of Adolf Hitler: The Truth About the Bodies in the Berlin Bunker

Hugh Thomas; W. Hugh Thomas

Since the end of the Second World War, it has become widely accepted that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun died together in a suicide pact as Soviet armies entered Berlin. Now, for the first time, Hugh Thomas reveals the reality behind the myth of Hitler's last days. using previously unavailable material from Soviet archives and drawing on a wide range of personal, medical, and forensic testimony, Thomas reconstructs what really happened in the Berlin bunker.

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World History: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present

Hugh Thomas

"World History" encompasses the entire history of man, beginning with our earliest ancestors. This book is a revision of the author's 1981 volume, "A History of the World." It includes a new epilogue and new maps.

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Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico

Hugh Thomas

Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with wit, balance, and insight, Thomas presents a compelling narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history, capturing in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offering unprecendented, in-depth portraits of legendary opponents Montezuma and Cortes. Photos & maps.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994

An Unfinished History of the World

Hugh Thomas

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Other editions: 1982, 1979

LA Conquista De Mexico

Hugh Thomas

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The Real Discovery of America: Mexico November 8, 1519

Hugh Thomas

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1992

LA Conquista De Mexico = the Conquest of Mexico

Hugh Thomas

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A History of Wales, 1485-1660

Hugh Thomas

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Other editions: 1972

Hess: A Tale of Two Murders

Hugh Thomas

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Other editions: Softcover - 1989

Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-46

Hugh Thomas

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Other editions: 1986

Central America: Can Europe Play a Part

Hugh Thomas

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The Case for the Round Reading Room

Hugh Thomas

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The Teaching of Welsh History in the Secondary Schools of Wales

Hugh Thomas

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