America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish
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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
$50.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conve
- Author: Rivera, Luis N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0664253679
- Language: English
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives..
$18.00 Read more‘The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land … He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it’
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall o… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics #217
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0140442170
- Language: English
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
$29.95 Add to cartThe Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spa
- Author: Todorov, Tzvetan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0806131373
- Language: English
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Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the for… [more below]
- Author: Cervantes, Fernando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1101981261
- Language: English
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Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem
$20.99 Add to cart“One of the 100 best books of the year.” –The Times Literary Supplement Christopher Columbus is reevaluated as a man of deep passion, patience, and religious conviction–on a mission to save Jerusale… [more below]
- Author: Delaney, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1439102376
- Language: English
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West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
$16.95 Add to cartIn this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful y
- Author: Saunt, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351157
- Language: English
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The Moor’s Account
$18.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – The imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America–this “stunning [book] sheds light on all of the possible the New World exploratio… [more below]
- Author: Lalami, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0804170622
- Language: English
