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Author : William Maltby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307610
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire written by William Maltby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise and readable history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, institutions and intellectual movements.

Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0804152144
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivers of Gold written by Hugh Thomas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Publisher : New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1962 [c1918]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New: The Middle Ages written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1962 [c1918]. This book was released on 1962 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Bigelou Merriman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 529 pages
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Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New written by Roger Bigelou Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New: The Catholic Kings written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019969281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and the New written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of the Spanish Empire offers a detailed and engaging account of its rise to prominence in the Old World and the New. Merriman explores the political, economic, and cultural factors that contributed to the expansion of the empire, from the reign of Charles V to the conquest of the Americas. With its vivid storytelling and insightful analysis, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of Spain and the Americas. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : R. B. Merriman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New written by R. B. Merriman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Publisher : Cooper Square Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780815401513
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by Cooper Square Pub. This book was released on 1940-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: