|
Showing 1 - 2 of
2 matches in All Departments
"Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely
populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest
empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe
Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s
engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in
infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing
the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and
widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of
engineers, prospectors, soldiers and priests, the authors paint a
vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a
dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding
of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as
oppression."
Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense
distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see
it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our
history, can´t attain. The Oxford History of the World encompasses
the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the
world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe
Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world,
from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first
century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas
(good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions
and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and
empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the
contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to
making the world we now inhabit.
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson
Blu-ray disc
(1)
R54
R45
Discovery Miles 450
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.