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  • The Dispatches of Hernan Cortes the Conqueror of Mexico

    Addressed to the Emperor Charles V. Written During the Conquest, and Containing a Narrative of Events

    by Hernan Cortes ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    The Dispatches of Hernan Cortes, or the 'Cartas de Relacion', are several extraordinary documents written by the great Conquistador himself, explaining his actions in the remarkable conquest of Mexico directly to the Emperor Charles V of Spain.Not since Julius Caesar documented his own Conquest of Gaul has a conquering general delivered his own story with such panache, but also with such ... Read more

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  • The Despatches of Hernando Cortes

    Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who played a crucial role in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. He was born in 1485 in Medellín, a town in what is now Extremadura, Spain. Cortés is best known for his conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico.In 1519, Cortés led an expedition to Mexico with the intention of exploring and establishing colonies. Upon arriving, he defied the orders of the ... Read more

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  • Letters from Mexico

    by Hernan Cortes ...
    Hernan Cortes's Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. ... Read more

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  • World Protests

    A Study of Key Protest Issues in the 21st Century

    This is an open access book.The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have rebelled against the way things are, demanding change, such as in 1848, 1917, and 1968. Today we are living in another time of ... Read more

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  • The Conquest of New Spain

    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    Bernal Diaz was an eyewitness to one of history's most remarkable events - the conquest of the Empire of the Aztecs, and the defeat of their Emperor Montezuma.The indomitable Diaz delivers his chronicle first-hand, vividly describing the ruthless battles, the brilliant Machiavellian strategies of Cortes, and the superstitions vacillations of Montezuma that lead to the momentous overthrow of the ... Read more

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  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

    The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the ... Read more

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  • The History of the Conquest of Mexico

    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    The story of the fall of the Mexica/Aztec civilisation in Mexico is one of the most astonishing episodes ever to occur in history; and in the skilful hands of William H. Prescott, one of America's greatest historians, it takes on a thrilling new dimension.Richly filled with detail, Prescott intricately describes the complex civilisation of the Mexica/Aztec people, before beginning the compelling ... Read more

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  • Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

    Translated by Harold V. Livermore ...
    The two-part classic history of the Incan empire's origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards.Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important ... Read more

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  • Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

    In 1526 Carlos I of Spain granted Pánfilo de Narváez a license to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States. Pánfilo de Narváez set sail in 1527 to conquer and settle present day Florida. Setting out with a crew of approximately 600 members ultimately only four members would survive the ill-fated expedition. The journey would take these four survivors from Spain to Hispaniola and Cuba ... Read more

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  • History of the Conquest of Mexico

    The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Conquest of Mexico or the Spanish-Aztec War (1519–21), was one of the primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. There are multiple 16th-century narratives of the events by Spanish conquistadors, their indigenous allies, and the defeated Aztecs. It was not solely a contest between a small contingent of Spaniards defeating ... Read more

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