Rivers of gold the rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Random House
c2003.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed |
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| Online Access: | Acceso a las primeras páginas |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010840289708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 696 p. : il. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-574) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780375502040 |
