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Author : T. Gary Sherman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468515675
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conquest and Catastrophe written by T. Gary Sherman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-11-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elinore M. Barrett
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826324126
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conquest and Catastrophe written by Elinore M. Barrett and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted reinterpretation of the Pueblo losses of settlements and population from 1540 until after reconquest at the end of the 1600s.
Author : Massimo Livi Bacci
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074564001X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conquest written by Massimo Livi Bacci and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shows how not only the 'imported' diseases but also a series of economic and social factors played a role in the disastrous decline on the native populations in the Americas.
Author : Elinore M. Barrett
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826324115
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conquest and Catastrophe written by Elinore M. Barrett and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barrett's study focuses on the theme of settlement geography. It attempts to identify the pueblos of the Rio Grande Pueblo Region from the mid-16th century through the 17th century, during the period of Spanish exploration and settlement in the area. The study provides a baseline settlement location pattern for the Rio Grande Pueblo Region, documents the changes in that pattern occurring over a 160- year period, and discusses the impacts of the Spanish on the Pueblo communities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : John Gillingham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473522331
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conquests, Catastrophe and Recovery written by John Gillingham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the Norman Conquest of England, these tumultuous centuries and their invasions shaped the languages and political geography of present-day Britain and Ireland. The Irish, Scots and Welsh fought their battles against the English with varying success - struggles which, like the events of 1066 in England, produced spectacular upheavals and left enduring national memories. But there was still a common enemy: the Black Death - still the greatest catastrophe in their history. There were significant advances, too. Hundreds of new towns were founded; slavery, still prevalent until the twelfth century, died out; magnificent cathedrals built, schools and universities established; clocks, gunpowder and the printing press. Magna Carta set new standards for holding governments to account and trial by jury won a central place in the legal systems of England and Scotland. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures of the period, as well as what might have been, John Gillingham seeks to define the ways in which lives changed during these turbulent times. With the words of contemporaries to guide us, we can understand more than ever before about national identities and the differences which came to define and ultimately untie these islands.
Author : Richard Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780321074
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catastrophe written by Richard Bourne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than thirty years later. Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, this is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards them.
Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1466894288
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strange Victory written by Ernest R. May and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940. Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his nation at the hands of an enemy the French had believed they could easily dispose of. In Strange Victory, the distinguished American historian Ernest R. May asks the opposite question: How was it that Hitler and his generals managed this swift conquest, considering that France and its allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own skepticism about their chances? Strange Victory is a riveting narrative of those six crucial weeks in the spring of 1940, weaving together the decisions made by the high commands with the welter of confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field. Why did Hitler want to turn against France at just this moment, and why were his poor judgment and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? It is May's contention that in the future, nations might suffer strange defeats of their own if they do not learn from their predecessors' mistakes in judgment.
Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195051803
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Harvest of Sorrow written by Robert Conquest and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.
Author : Robert Conquest
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320862
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reflections on a Ravaged Century written by Robert Conquest and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the twentieth century examines the factors and events that have sent millions to their deaths, discussing the philosophies that have caused so much conflict, as well as what the future may hold for the human race.
Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521627306
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Born to Die written by Noble David Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave: smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases literally conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame of the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.
