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  • Pillaging the Empire

    Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

    by Kris E Lane ...
    Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Political Science in Theory and Practice: The Politics Model

    The Politics Model

    by Kris E Lane ...
    This text demonstrates that there is a politics model that unifies the discipline and structures its relationship to the other social sciences. It shows how this model underlies important works of applied research in all the main political science subfields. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Piracy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Kris Lane ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane ...
    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of the Gunpowder Empires

    by Kris Lane ...

    $32.79 USD

  • Colour of Paradise

    The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

    by Kris Lane ...
    Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was—as it remains for all Muslims—the color of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funneled ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Potosi

    The Silver City That Changed the World

    by Kris Lane ...
    Series Book 27 - California World History Library
    "For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."—New York Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world’s greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico, or “Rich Hill,” and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Pandemic in Potosí

    Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis

    by Kris Lane ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of 1717–22 was ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies

    by Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Translated by Timothy F. Johnson ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas, the book is a training manual for conquistadors. The Aztec and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell

    A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s

    Edited by Kris Lane ...
    Series series The Basque Series
    In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other nations known collectively as Vicuñas. At stake were the world’s richest silver mines, a means to wealth and power in the Americas, Europe, and ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

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  • Inca Apocalypse

    The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

    by R. Alan Covey ...
    A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle"-in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820

    A Documentary History

    Edited by John F. Chuchiak IV ...
    The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This systematic, comprehensive look at one of the most important Inquisition tribunals in the New World ... Read more

    $33.59 USD