Spydus Search Results - Subject: Spain -- Colonies (Keywords)

Rivers of gold : the rise of the Spanish Empire / Hugh Thomas.

An epic narrative history of the New World and the people who discovered and conquered it, this book covers the rise of the Spanish Empire from 1490 to 1522.
Author: Thomas, Hugh, 1931-
Published: London : Penguin, 2010.
xx, 764 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 970.016 - Available - 30111045225504
Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 970.016 - Available - 30111045223582
St Pancras Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 970.016 - Available - 30111045223715
West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 970.016 - Available - 30111045224119

The Golden Age : the Spanish Empire of Charles V / Hugh Thomas.

The magisterial and enigmatic figure of Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire. It begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around the world in 1522 and ends with Charles's death in 1558.
Author: Thomas, Hugh, 1931-
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2010.
xvi, 696 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps, col. ports. ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 980.01 - Available - 30111045223475

The rise and fall of the Spanish empire / William Maltby.

At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, institutions and intellectual movements.
Author: Maltby, William S., 1940-
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
272 p. ; 22 cm.

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 946.04 - Available - 30111045066452

Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 / J.H. Elliott.

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus' arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early 19th century.
Author: Elliott, J. H. (John Huxtable)
Published: New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2006.
xx, 546 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 970.02 - Available - 30111041909499

Rivers of blood, rivers of gold : Europe's conflict with tribal peoples / Mark Cocker.

Mark Cocker focuses on examples of how European & Euro-Americans have subjugated and in some cases almost exterminated native peoples in many parts of the world during the last 400 years.
Author: Cocker, Mark
Published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1998.
xvi, 416p., [16]p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 325.32094 - Available - 30111032948613

A short account of the destruction of the Indies / Bartolomé de las Casas ; edited and translated by Nigel Griffin ; with an introduction by Anthony Pagden.

In this work, Bartolomé de las Casas provides a fierce and moving account of the genocide practised by the Spanish colonialists.
Author: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Published: London : Penguin Books, 1992.
xliv, 143 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm.
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Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - (868) - Available - 30111039616593