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Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire by : William Maltby
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.
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by : Roger Bigelow Merriman
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 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and the New by : Roger Bigelow Merriman
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.
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by : Roger Bigelow Merriman
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:
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and the New by : Roger Bigelow Merriman
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 . This book was released on 1925 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis Prescott's Histories by : William Hickling Prescott
Download or read book Prescott's Histories written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Histories by : William Hickling Prescott
Download or read book Histories written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanish Empire written by Hourly History and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable history of the Spanish Empire... The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire and the first to be described as one on which "the sun never sets." It rapidly grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the history of the world and brought us goods such as potatoes, chocolate, and chewing gum. Yet in the Middle Ages, Spain as we now know it did not exist. Most of the north of the Iberian Peninsula was ruled by two powerful Christian kingdoms, Castile and Aragon, while the southern part was al-Andalus, an Islamic kingdom that had originated in North Africa. By the end of the fifteenth century, al-Andalus had been defeated, the peninsula was united under Christianity, and Spain had become one of the most powerful countries in Europe. Then, Spanish explorers discovered the Americas. Unimaginable wealth flowed from the New World to Spain, increasing its power even further. Over vast tracts of territory in the Americas and lands in Asia, Spanish became the dominant language and Catholic Christianity the dominant religion, all as a direct result of Spanish imperialism. Barely three hundred years later, the Spanish Empire collapsed. Almost all its colonial possessions gained independence or were acquired by other countries. How could this happen? How did Spain come to dominate the world and then abruptly lose its power? This is the astonishing story of the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire. Discover a plethora of topics such as Reconquista: Ousting the Muslims Spanish Control in the Americas The Habsburgs Treasure Fleets and Poverty Napoleon: The Spanish Ulcer The Fall of the Spanish Empire And much more!
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by : Roger Bigelou Merriman
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:
Book Synopsis The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923 by : Sebastian Balfour
Download or read book The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923 written by Sebastian Balfour and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of Spain's disastrous war with the United States in 1898, in which she lost the remnants of her old empire. The book also analyzes the ensuing political and social crisis in Spain from the loss of empire, through World War I, to the military coup of 1923.
Download or read book The Golden Empire written by Hugh Thomas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French and expanded the Spanish empire, and the bold conquistadors who were his agents. Thomas brings to life King Charles V—first as a gangly and easygoing youth, then as a liberal statesman who exceeded all his predecessors in his ambitions for conquest (while making sure to maintain the humanity of his new subjects in the Americas), and finally as a besieged Catholic leader obsessed with Protestant heresy and interested only in profiting from those he presided over. The Golden Empire also presents the legendary men whom King Charles V sent on perilous and unprecedented expeditions: Hernán Cortés, who ruled the “New Spain” of Mexico as an absolute monarch—and whose rebuilding of its capital, Tenochtitlan, was Spain’s greatest achievement in the sixteenth century; Francisco Pizarro, who set out with fewer than two hundred men for Peru, infamously executed the last independent Inca ruler, Atahualpa, and was finally murdered amid intrigue; and Hernando de Soto, whose glittering journey to settle land between Rio de la Palmas in Mexico and the southernmost keys of Florida ended in disappointment and death. Hugh Thomas reveals as never before their torturous journeys through jungles, their brutal sea voyages amid appalling storms and pirate attacks, and how a cash-hungry Charles backed them with loans—and bribes—obtained from his German banking friends. A sweeping, compulsively readable saga of kings and conquests, armies and armadas, dominance and power, The Golden Empire is a crowning achievement of the Spanish world’s foremost historian.
Book Synopsis Prescott's Histories by : William Hickling Prescott
Download or read book Prescott's Histories written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by : R. B. Merriman
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:
Book Synopsis Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by : Roger Bigelow Merriman
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:
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New: Philip the prudent by : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New: Philip the prudent written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spain written by Melveena McKendrick and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the division and strife of the Middle Ages, Spain emerged from behind the Pyrenees to straddle the stage of European politics like some new colossus. Discoverer of a New World, it became the greatest power on earth and created a Golden Age of culture breathtaking in its quality and achievement. Within 150 years, Spain was in a state of decay and fast being left behind by more progressive European nations. Here, from award-winning historian Malveena McKendrick, is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire.
