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Published on: 2004-06-01
Released on: 2004-06-01
Original language: English

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 Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem. The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolome de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortes, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims.Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives.Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present. Spanish Empire - Wikipedia The Spanish Empire (Spanish: Imperio espaol) was one of the largest empires in history. It reached the peak of its military political and economic power under the ... Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia The Colonial expansion under the crown of Castile was initiated by the Spanish conquistadores and developed by its administrators and missionaries. Free european expansion Essays and Papers - 123helpme Free european expansion papers essays and research papers. Christopher Columbus Biography Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer of his age: for centuries he was thought to have been the first to discover America. The Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus returned from his first voyage in March 1493 having discovered the New World...although he didnt know it. He still believed that ... Spanish Empire - New World Encyclopedia 3 The Empire of the last Spanish Habsburgs (16431713) 4 The Bourbon Spanish Empire: Reform and Recovery (17131806) The marriage of the Ferdinand II of Aragon ... Creamies Back in the late 1950s Creamies was asked by a grade school principal to make a frozen treat with milk instead of sugar water. Creamies developed an ice milk bar made ... Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd University of Calgary Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd. was incorporated as a not-for-profit research organization in 1964. The Company conducts research in the field of chemistry as it ... The First Global Empire History Today Gama's rounding of the Cape of Good Hope was the result of 60 years of effort. Portugal was poor small and marginal to the arena of the Mediterranean world but its ... Middle Ages - New World Encyclopedia The Late Middle Ages was a period initiated by calamities and upheavals. During this time agriculture was affected by a climate change that has been documented by ...
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