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Conquistadoras
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Author : Carlos B. Vega
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2003-10-02
Conquistadoras written by Carlos B. Vega and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-02 with Social Science categories.
Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of Maria de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; Maria de Penalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quiros, first and only woman admiral of the Spanish navy; and mestizo leaders Francisca Pizarro and Leonor de Alvarado. Also covered are more than 40 other women of the same period--Spanish, Indian, and black--who held a wide variety of leadership positions. The book draws its information from the writings of respected early historians as well as historical documents from libraries and archives in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Cortes, Pizarro, Alvarado, todos ellos hombres conocidos y famosos. Pero y las mujeres? Si bien fue el hombre el que mayormente cargo sobre sus hombros la empresa conquistadora, muchas fueron las mujeres que tambien formaron parte de tal epopeya. Sin embargo, la historia les paso por encima y las relego al triste olvido. Esta obra se empena en hacerles justicia historica a estas mujeres, destacando sus vidas y hazanas sobre todo a ocho de ellas, quizas las mas conocidas, pero no las unicas. Fueron mujeres excepcionales, resolutas, integras, juiciosas, prontas a echar un pie adelante cuando las circunstancias asi lo exigieron, pero, vale recalcar, sin renunciar en ningun momento a sus dotes de madres y esposas. De las ocho mujeres, seis fueron espanolas y dos indigenas, incluyendose, ademas, a unas cuarenta mas aunque en menos detalle. La obra rebosa humanidad y sentido historico y esta escrita en un lenguaje pulcro y sencillo, al alcance de todo tipo de lector. Sus fuentes son rigurosamente historicas y fidedignas, fruto de las mas excelsas plumas a ambos lados del Atlantico y pertenecientes a todas las epocas, incluyendo, claro esta, a los primitivos cronistas de Indias.
La Conquistadora
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Author : Jaima Chevalier
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2010
La Conquistadora written by Jaima Chevalier and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Conquistadora categories.
Few religious icons dominate and inspire their subjects as powerfully as La Conquistadora, America's Oldest Madonna, has over the centuries. La Conquistadora's origins are shrouded in mystery, but Chevalier unveils surprising new information about this icon's amazing provenance and past.
Mar A De Estrada
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Author : Gloria Durán
language : en
Publisher: Discoveries (Latin American Li
Release Date : 1999
Mar A De Estrada written by Gloria Durán and has been published by Discoveries (Latin American Li this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
A fictionalized biography of a Spanish swordswoman who flees the Inquisition and takes part with Cortés in the conquest of Mexico. After which she enters politics and becomes a champion of Indian rights.
Conquistadora English Edition
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Author : Esmeralda Santiago
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2011
Conquistadora English Edition written by Esmeralda Santiago and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with American fiction categories.
Drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León, Ana Cubillas becomes involved with enamored twin brothers Ramón and Inocente before convincing them to claim a sugar plantation they have inherited.
La Conquistadora
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Author : Amy G. Remensnyder
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-03
La Conquistadora written by Amy G. Remensnyder and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with History categories.
La Conquistadora explores Mary's prominence on and off the battlefield in the culturally and ethnically diverse world of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, and in colonial Mexico, where Spaniards and indigenous peoples mingled.
The Conquistadors A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Matthew Restall
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-01-24
The Conquistadors A Very Short Introduction written by Matthew Restall and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-24 with History categories.
This Very Short Introduction examines the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Americas in the sixteenth century, as well as the Native American Kingdoms they invaded.
La Conquistadora
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Author : Angelico Chavez
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 1983
La Conquistadora written by Angelico Chavez and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Conquistadora categories.
Written as an autobiography, the author lets this famous willow wood statue speak for herself, tell her own story from the time she was brought to New Mexico in 1625 by Fray Benavides until the present. Many photographs bring this remarkable history to life. Fray Ang lico researched, translated and annotated facts about the statue's history, its religious society, its fiestas and chapels, correcting the mistakes and folklore held as truth for more than two centuries. Fray Ang lico Ch vez has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way you measure his career, Fray Ang lico Ch vez was an unexpected phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest. In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Ch vez performed the difficult duties of an isolated backcountry pastor. His assignments included Hispanic villages and Indian pueblos. As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards that because of his small stature, Japanese bullets always missed him. In time, despite heavy clerical duties, Fray Ang lico managed to become an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist. Upon all of his endeavors, one finds, understandably, the imprint of his religious perspective. During nearly seventy years of writing, he published almost two dozen books. Among them were novels, essays, poetry, biographies, and histories. Sunstone Press has brought back into print some of these rare titles.
La Conquistadora
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Author : Amy G. Remensnyder
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-24
La Conquistadora written by Amy G. Remensnyder and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-24 with History categories.
While most books about Mary emphasize her role as the compassionate mother of God, this book uncovers her significant role as an active and often belligerent patron of warfare, as seen from the mosques and castles of medieval Iberia to the cities and shrines of colonial Mexico and finally to present-day New Mexico. Amy Remensnyder explores Mary's prominence on and off the battlefield in the culturally and ethnically diverse world of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, and in colonial Mexico, where Spaniards and indigenous peoples mingled. As this array of peoples turned to her to articulate their identities, Mary was drawn into both hostile and peaceful cross-cultural encounters. Although Mary became an icon of the Christian conquest of Muslims, medieval Muslims and Christians shared her, sometimes even joining together in rituals of worship in her churches. In the New World, some indigenous peoples of the Americas appropriated from the Spanish the idea of Mary as Conquistadora, using it to reinforce the identity they fashioned for themselves as native conquistadors. Offering a ground-breaking look at the Virgin Mary, La Conquistadora connects medieval and early modern understandings of this iconic figure to reveal her enduring legacy.
The Conquistadors
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Author : Hammond Innes
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-04-09
The Conquistadors written by Hammond Innes and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with History categories.
This enthralling study which examines the impact of the Spaniards upon the Aztec and Inca worlds is dominated by the personalities involved, in particular Cortes and Montezuma. Their confrontation in the Aztec lake-city of Tenochtitlan is a moving drama of human conflict revealing the dilemma and the enigma of the Indians. It is a story of battles and voyages, full of strange episodes – Cortes burning his ships, Pizarro drawing a line with his sword, saying "Gentlemen, this line represents toil, hunger, thirst, weariness, sickness" and daring them to cross it, and Atahualpa nursing his wound in the hot springs of Cajamarca and watching, with his army, the tiny band of Spanish adventurers descending the green slopes of the Andes.
The Spanish Conquistadores
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Author : Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Spanish Conquistadores written by Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with America categories.