Rivers of Gold The Rise of the Spanish Empire
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.11.2010
Verlag
Penguin BooksSeitenzahl
816
Maße (L/B/H)
19.5/12.9/4.1 cm
Gewicht
543 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-14-103448-5
The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age.
Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteenth century convinced themselves that an Earthly Paradise existed in the Caribbean. This is the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on the precarious journey across the Atlantic - taking with them wheat, the horse, the guitar and the wheel as well as guns, malaria and slaves - to create an empire that made Spain the envy of the world.
> The New York Times
> Paul Johnson, Literary Review
> Sunday Telegraph
> Arthur Schlesinger, Jr
> Jonathan Keates, Spectator
> Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman
Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1962) which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994), An Unfinished History of the World (1979) and The Slave Trade (1997). The second volume of his planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire, The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V was published in 2011.
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