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(0)Thomas Hughes
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 696 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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 shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. For Spain and for the world, the decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal-the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.
Spain's colonial adventures began inauspiciously. In spite...
11) Suez
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A narrative chronicle of Spain's dominant years traces Latin America's exploration, conquest, and economic development between 1522 and 1556, offering insight into how period accomplishments remain influential in today's world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (502 pages)
Language
English
Description
Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky (1924-2009), a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian literature, sexual politics, and music who taught in the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1964 to 1991. Among Karlinsky's full-length works are major studies of Marina Tsvetaeva and Nikolai Gogol, Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age...
