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Thomas, Hugh
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
New York Simon & Schuster; Touchstone 1995 0671511041 / 9780671511043 First paperback edition Soft Cover Fine
xx, 812 pp., illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "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 of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians." - Publisher.
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Thomas, Hugh
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
New York Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005 0812970551 / 9780812970555 First edition thus Trade Paperback Fine
xxi, 696 pp., illus. (some col.), maps, bib. notes, index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "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 Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers--Cortés, 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. / HUGH THOMAS is the author of numerous histories, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, Conquest, and The Slave Trade. His A History of the World won him the Arts Council Prize for History. Made a Lord in 1981, Lord Thomas was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne." - Publisher.
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Diaz del Castillo, Bernal; Maudslay, A. P. (Translated by), and Thomas, Hugh (Introduction by)
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521
New York Da Capo Press 1996 0306806975 / 9780306806971 Reprint, 1999 Trade Paperback Very Good
xxxi, 478 pp., illus., maps, bib. notes, index; 22 cm. First published under title: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana. Translated from the Spanish. Edited from the only exact copy of the original MS (and published in Mexico) by Genaro Garcia. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1495-1584) served under Cortés through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative is both an invaluable document and a spectacular epic. Del Castillo saw Cortés sink his own ships (to prevent desertion) as soon as they landed on Mexican soil, and watched Montezuma become a prisoner in his own palace. The immediacy of his voice as translated by renowned scholar A.P. Maudslay reaches across the centuries to invite readers to witness for themselves the horrors and wonders of the initial, apocalyptic clash between two great civilizations." - Publisher.
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