The Discovery And Conquest Of Peru

Author : Pedro de Cieza de Leon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382504
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery and Conquest of Peru written by Pedro de Cieza de Leon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s conquistador compatriates, as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook present this recently discovered third book of a four-part chronicle that provides the most thorough and definitive record of the birth of modern Andean America. It describes with unparalleled detail the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa, the Indian resistance, and the ultimate Spanish domination. Students and scholars of Latin American history and conquest narratives will welcome the publication of this volume.

Author : George CUBITT (Wesleyan Minister.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pizarro: or, The discovery and conquest of Peru written by George CUBITT (Wesleyan Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher : Digital Antiquaria
ISBN 13 : 1580573029
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conquest of Peru written by William Hickling Prescott and published by Digital Antiquaria. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prescott's classic history of the Andes empire, its culture, and its demise. This absorbingly readable narrative begins with a broad overview of the country and its people. The author, without the benefit of generations of archaeological and historical research, paints an extraordinarily accurate picture of the Empire of the Incas and the daily lives and customs of its people. The author concentrates on the exploits of Fernando Pizarro and his successors as they loot, pillage and dismantle one of the world's great civilizations.Originally published in 1847, Prescott's "Conquest of Peru" is considered one of the great classics of historical writing. It was the first work in the English language on the subject, and achieved wide circulation - both as a historical treatise and as novel entertainment. Although much has been written on the subject since then, this work is still the starting point for all cultural and historical discussion of the Incan world.This masterfully crafted eBook is a faithful presentation of the first edition, and includes the hundreds of footnotes which the author felt were necessary to substantiate his facts and opinions (each is placed on the page on which it is referenced). Revisions from later editions are also included. The eBook is fully-searchable and fully printable. (597pp, 4.86 Mb)

Author : Agustin de Zárate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery and Conquest of Peru written by Agustin de Zárate and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joachim Heinrich Campe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pizarro, or, The conquest of Peru, a continuation of The discovery of America. Transl written by Joachim Heinrich Campe and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Conquest of Peru written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernando Cervantes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981288
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistadores written by Fernando Cervantes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world “The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how to tell a good story.” —The Times (London) Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history.

Author : Pedro Pizarro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru written by Pedro Pizarro and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agustin de Zárate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848231552
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Discovery and Conquest of Peru written by Agustin de Zárate and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pedro Pizarro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru written by Pedro Pizarro and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: