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  • A Fortified Sea

    The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

    by Pedro Cruz Freire, María Mercedes Fernández Martín, Manuel Gámez Casado, Aaron Graham, Francisco Javier Herrera García, Nuria Hinarejos Martín, Ignacio J. López-Hernández, Pedro Luengo, Alfredo J. Morales, José Miguel Morales Folguera, Juan Miguel Muñoz Corbalán0, Christopher K. Waters1, Gene Allen Smith Jr.3, Mónica Cejudo Collera5, Jesús María Ruiz Carrasco Jr.6, Germán Segura García Jr.7 ...
    Series series Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
    WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S 2025 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDA multinational, interdisciplinary study illuminating how fortifications reshaped the Caribbean as a contested imperial borderland in the eighteenth century.A Fortified Sea illuminates the key role of military forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century. The historical Caribbean, with its multiple ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Manila, 1645

    by Pedro Luengo ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century.The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is contextualized not merely as a Spanish settlement connected to New Spain via America, but instead within ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Simón Bolívar

    A Life

    by John Lynch ...
    The "impeccably researched, uncommonly honest, and . . . very well written" biography of the nineteenth century Venezuelan military and political leader (Alvaro Vargas Llosa, New Republic).Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six South American countries from Spanish Imperial rule, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a statesman who led the governments of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conquest

    Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Series series Gift for History Buffs
    Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    Latin America's Struggle for Independence

    by John Charles Chasteen ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in World History
    A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Conquistadors and Aztecs

    A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan

    by Stefan Rinke ...
    A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Africans and Native Americans

    The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples

    by Jack D. Forbes ...
    Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo--terms ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Mexico and the Spanish Conquest

    by Ross Hassig ...
    What role did indigenous peoples play in the Spanish conquest of Mexico? Ross Hassig explores this question in Mexico and the Spanish Conquest by incorporating primary accounts from the Indians of Mexico and revisiting the events of the conquest against the backdrop of the Aztec empire, the culture and politics of Mesoamerica, and the military dynamics of both sides. He analyzes the weapons, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Conflicts and Conspiracies

    Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Conquest of the Aztec Empire

    A Chronicle of the Collision of Two Worlds (Short ilustrated version)

    by Alejandro Toulet ...
    Trying to understand the conquest of the Aztec Empire entails penetrating one of the most fabulous and sad episodes of the history of mankind. It is well known that the Spaniards, led by Hernan Cortes, conquered the Aztecs; the most powerful civilization of Mesoamerica. However, there are many questions regarding the actual events. For instance: how did Hernan Cortes communicate with the Aztecs? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom by a Thread

    The History of Quilombos in Brazil

    Edited by Flavio Dos Santos Gomes, Joao Jose Reis ...
    Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery penetrated every ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Seeds of Insurrection

    Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848

    by Manuel Barcia ...
    On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient slaves. Yet this makeshift parade never evolved into the violent rebellion the villagers expected. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD