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  • The Spanish Conquest of the Americas

    by Irving Richman ...
    The Spaniard of the fifteenth century is recognizable by well-defined traits: he was primitive, he was proud, he was devout, and he was romantic. His primitiveness we detect in his relish for blood and suffering; his pride in his austerity and exclusiveness; his devoutness in his mystical exaltation of the Church; and his romanticism in his passion for adventure.After printing had spread in Spain, ... Read more

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  • The Conquest of New Spain

    by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo ...
    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 Conquistadors

    by Hammond Innes ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Conquest of New Spain

    by Bernal Diaz del Castillo ...
    Translated by John Cohen ...
    Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the ... Read more

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  • Conquistadors

    Searching for El Dorado: The Terrifying Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires

    by John Pemberton ...
    In the sixteenth century the King of Spain issued his soldiers with a three-pronged mission: to find gold, spread the word of Christianity and claim new territories for Spain. The Conquistadors, as they became known, set off into the world to do just that, and nothing was to stand in their way. Some say that the discovery of the New World is the greatest event in history. Others, that it amounted ... Read more

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  • Conquistadors

    by Michael Wood ...
    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 ... Read more

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

    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
    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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  • The History of Cuba : Volume I (Illustrated)

    by Willis Fletcher Johnson ...
    “Cuba was thus in her foundation the fortunate recipient of the rugged and masterful spirit of Estremadura, and of the elements of government and of social grace and intellectual power which Seville could so well and so abundantly supply; and these two contrasting yet by no means incompatible elements became characteristic of the Cuban people; complementarily contributing to the development of a ... Read more

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  • The Memoirs of The Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2)

    by Bernal Díaz del Castillo ...
    The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) by Bernal Díaz del Castillo is a riveting firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, providing readers with a unique perspective on one of history's most significant events. As a soldier who fought alongside Hernán Cortés, Díaz del Castillo chronicles his experiences from the moment he set sail for the New World in ... Read more

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  • Inca Gold: History, Conquest & Legend

    by Steven J. Charbonneau ...
    Prepare to embark on a journey back in time into the realm of the unknown with the conquistadores and Francisco Pizarro as "Inca Gold" relates the fascinating and engrossing story of an indigenous people, their social structure, culture, religion, military, administration, myths, legends and conquest. With the aid of historical resources gain knowledge of unfathomable and unparalleled events that ... Read more

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  • The Florida of the Inca

    The Fabulous De Doto Story

    by Garcilaso Vega ...
    "Great endurances and deeds were surviving treasures for the soul that marched with DeSoto, and this book is their richest storehouse." – The New York Times Book ReviewPerhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto expedition is the fact that, although it is easily the first great classic of American history, it had never before received a complete ... Read more

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  • Cortés and Montezuma

    by Maurice Collis ...
    The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD