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  • Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance

    A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy

    de Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook ...
    Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Luis Gerónimo de Oré

    The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power

    de Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook, Anne J. Cruz ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Gerónimo de Oré (1554–1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world, as the global empire of Spain engaged in a nearly continuous struggle over resources and religion.In the first full-length biography of Oré, Noble David Cook and Alexandra Parma Cook reconstruct the friar’s ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The People of the Colca Valley

    A Population Study

    de Noble David Cook ...
    While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon—to the city of Arequipa and its airport, eight hours away. Noble David Cook and his co-researcher Alexandra Parma Cook have been studying the Colca ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • The Plague Files

    Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville

    de Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook ...
    In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contagion, including the plague; the billeting of troops in preparation for Philip II's invasion of Portugal; crop failure and famine following drought and locust infestation; an aborted uprising of the Moriscos (Christian converts from Islam); ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • People of the Volcano

    Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru

    de Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook ...
    While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon—to the city of Arequipa and its airport, eight hours away. Noble David Cook and his co-researcher Alexandra Parma Cook have been studying the Colca ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

    Traducido por Alexandra Parma Cook, Noble David Cook ...
    de Pedro de Cieza de Leon ...
    Series series Chronicles of the New World Encounter
    Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • Moctezuma's Children

    Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520–1700

    de Donald E. Chipman ...
    Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish law and customs to maintain and enhance their status ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Indian Conquistadors

    Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica

    Edición de Laura E. Matthew, Michel R. Oudijk ...
    The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. This book takes into account the role of native peoples as active agents in the Conquest through a review of new sources and more careful analysis of known but under-studied materials that demonstrate the overwhelming importance of native allies in both ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Conquistadores

    A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

    de Fernando Cervantes ...
    A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world“The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Conquest

    Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Golden Empire

    Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America

    de Hugh Thomas ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Rivers of Gold

    The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan

    de Hugh Thomas ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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