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  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane ...
    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell

    A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s

    Edited by Kris Lane ...
    Series series The Basque Series
    In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other nations known collectively as Vicuñas. At stake were the world’s richest silver mines, a means to wealth and power in the Americas, Europe, and ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of the Gunpowder Empires

    by Kris Lane ...

    $32.79 USD

  • The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies

    by Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Translated by Timothy F. Johnson ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas, the book is a training manual for conquistadors. The Aztec and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Colour of Paradise

    The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

    by Kris Lane ...
    Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was—as it remains for all Muslims—the color of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funneled ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Pandemic in Potosí

    Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis

    by Kris Lane ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of 1717–22 was ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Piracy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Kris Lane ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Potosi

    The Silver City That Changed the World

    by Kris Lane ...
    Series Book 27 - California World History Library
    "For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."—New York Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world’s greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico, or “Rich Hill,” and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

    by R. Alan Covey ...
    A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle"-in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Colonial Latin America

    A Documentary History

    Edited by Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor, Sandra Lauderdale Graham ...
    Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820

    A Documentary History

    Edited by John F. Chuchiak IV ...
    The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This systematic, comprehensive look at one of the most important Inquisition tribunals in the New World ... Read more

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  • The Last Day

    Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

    by Nicholas Shrady ...
    The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five days and left Lisbon thoroughly annihilated. Nicholas Shrady's unique account of this first modern ... Read more

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