Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

Hugh Thomas

Penguin Books Limited, 28‏/11‏/2013 - 816 من الصفحات

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. In this epic history Hugh Thomas brings Spain's rise to empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age.

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Hugh Thomas has come through again! The Spanish Empire was not only a romantic idea, but an organization, and an enterprise which involved a relatively few people in the continental Spanish structure ...

Rivers of gold: the rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

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نبذة عن المؤلف

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). From 1966 to 1975 he was Professor of History at the University of Reading. He was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, and he became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire
• المؤلف: Hugh Thomas
• الناشر: Penguin Books Limited, 2013
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 0241958806, 9780241958803
• عدد الصفحات: 816 من الصفحات