The Golden Empire
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French and expanded the Spanish empire, and the bold conquistadors who were his agents. Thomas brings to life King Charles V-first as a gangly and easygoing youth, then as a liberal statesman who exceeded all his predecessors in his ambitions for conquest (while making sure to maintain the humanity of his new subjects in the Americas), and fin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-904-8
- EAN: 9781588369048
- Produktnummer: 15715535
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 672 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 17'371 KB
- Abbildungen: PHOTO INSERTS; 28 MAPS; 5 FAMILY TREES
Über den Autor
Hugh Thomas is the author of numerous histories, including Rivers of Gold, a New York Times Notable Book and one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books of the Year; The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award; and An Unfinished History of the World, for which he won the Arts Council Prize for History. Made a lord in 1981, Lord Thomas was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne.
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