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Cuba by Thomas Hugh
37.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This title explores Cuban history from the English capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination down to the 20th century and the revolution of Fidel Castro. In particular, the author sets Cuba's greatest crop, sugar, in the context of the Atlantic slave trade.
Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
30.00 NZD
Category: History
The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas' "Rivers of Gold" brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteent ...Show more
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas' "The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V" is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South America in the sixteenth century, they swept acros ...Show more
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
30.00 NZD
Category: History
World Without Endis the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary proje ...Show more
World without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority. World Without End tells the story of life in a conquered territory that stretched from Cuba to Peru, and of the f ...Show more
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