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The Body Of The Conquistador
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Author : Rebecca Earle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012
The Body Of The Conquistador written by Rebecca Earle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Could European bodies thrive in the Indies? Would Indians turn into Spaniards if they ate Spanish food? This fascinating history of food, colonisation and race shows that attitudes about food were fundamental to European colonialism and understandings of physical difference in the Age of Discovery.
The Body Of The Conquistador
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Author : Rebecca Earle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-23
The Body Of The Conquistador written by Rebecca Earle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-23 with History categories.
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.
Conquistador S Wake
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Author : Dennis B. Blanton
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2020
Conquistador S Wake written by Dennis B. Blanton and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Social Science categories.
"Published with the generous support of Fernbank"--Title page.
Conquistador
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Author : S. M. Stirling
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-02-04
Conquistador written by S. M. Stirling and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-04 with Fiction categories.
“In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?”—Publishers Weekly Oakland, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, has made a fabulous discovery: A portal to an alternate America where Europeans have never set foot—and the only other humans in sight are a band of very curious Indians. Able to return at will to the modern world, Rolfe summons the only people with whom he is willing to share his discovery: his war buddies. And tells them to bring their families... Los Angeles, twenty-first century. Fish and Game warden Tom Christiansen is involved in the bust of a smuggling operation. What he turns up is something he never anticipated: a photo of authentic Aztec priests decked out in Grateful Dead T-shirts, and a live condor from a gene pool that doesn’t correspond to any known in captivity or the wild. It is a find that will lead him to a woman named Adrienne Rolfe—and a secret that’s been hidden for sixty years…
Conquistadores
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Author : Fernando Cervantes
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-09-14
Conquistadores written by Fernando Cervantes and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with History categories.
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 simple language, and most importantly knows how to tell a good story.” —The Times (London) Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history.
The Return Of The Native
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Author : Rebecca Earle
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-12-28
The Return Of The Native written by Rebecca Earle and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-28 with History categories.
The Return of the Native offers a look at the role of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the Incas in the imagination of Spanish American elites in the first century after independence.
Conquistador
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Author : Buddy Levy
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2008-06-24
Conquistador written by Buddy Levy and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with History categories.
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. “I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.” —Hernán Cortés It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. Only one would survive the encounter. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions is one of the most remarkable—and tragic—aspects of this unforgettable story of conquest. In Tenochtitlán, the famed City of Dreams, Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of fifteen million people, and commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astonishing military campaigns ever waged. Sometimes outnumbered in battle thousands-to-one, Cortés repeatedly beat seemingly impossible odds. Buddy Levy meticulously researches the mix of cunning, courage, brutality, superstition, and finally disease that enabled Cortés and his men to survive. Conquistador is the story of a lost kingdom—a complex and sophisticated civilization where floating gardens, immense wealth, and reverence for art stood side by side with bloodstained temples and gruesome rites of human sacrifice. It’s the story of Montezuma—proud, spiritual, enigmatic, and doomed to misunderstand the stranger he thought a god. Epic in scope, as entertaining as it is enlightening, Conquistador is history at its most riveting. Praise for Conquistador “Prodigiously researched and stirringly told, Conquistador is a rarity: an invaluable history lesson that also happens to be a page-turning read.”—Jeremy Schaap, bestselling author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics “Sweeping and majestic . . . A pulse-quickening narrative.”—Neal Bascomb, author of Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
The Last Conquistador
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Author : Michael Elias
language : en
Publisher: Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
Release Date : 2014-01-21
The Last Conquistador written by Michael Elias and has been published by Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-21 with Amazon River Valley categories.
On a Peruvian Andes mountaintop, archaeology professor Nina Ramirez and her students make two stunning discoveries: the five-hundred-year-old mummy of an Inca girl, the victim of ritual sacrifice, and in another grave, the corpse of a recently kidnapped boy wearing the same ancient constume. Child abductions are being reported throughout Peru, and when an American boy is snatched in Lima, FBI agent Adam Palma is assigned to the case.
Conquistadors
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Author : Michael Wood
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-05-14
Conquistadors written by Michael Wood and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-14 with History categories.
The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the lands of the 'New World', and few stories in history can match these for drama and endurance. In Conquistadors, Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of the greatest of the Spanish adventurers travelling from the forests of Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, the deserts of North Mexico, the snowpeaks of the Andes and the heights of Machu Picchu. He experiences the epic journeys of Cortes, Pizarro, Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca, and explores the turbulent and terrifying events surrounding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. Wood brings these stories to vivid life, highlighting both the heroic accomplishments and the complex moral legacy of the European invasion. Conquistadors is Michael Wood at his best - thoughtful, provocative and gripping history.
Feeding The People
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Author : Rebecca Earle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-25
Feeding The People written by Rebecca Earle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-25 with Business & Economics categories.
Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?