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  • Chronicle of Alfonso X

    by Shelby Thacker, Jose Escobar ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    Alfonso X (1221–1284) reigned as king of Castile and León from 1252 until his death. Known to history as El Sabio, the Wise, or the Learned, his appreciation for science and the arts led him to sponsor a number of books on the history of Spain since its Roman settlement. Among them were the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of over four hundred poems exalting his favorite patron saint, Mary, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Conquistadores

    A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

    by Fernando Cervantes ...
    A 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 formidable empires in the world“The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Conquest of the Aztec Empire

    A Chronicle of the Collision of Two Worlds (long non-ilustrated version)

    by Alejandro Toulet ...
    Trying to understand the conquest of the Aztec Empire entails penetrating one of the most fabulous and sad episodes of the history of mankind. It is well known that the Spaniards, led by Hernan Cortes, conquered the Aztecs; the most powerful civilization of Mesoamerica. However, there are many questions regarding the actual events. For instance: how did Hernan Cortes communicate with the Aztecs? ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
    Translated by Harold V. Livermore ...
    The two-part classic history of the Incan empire's origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards.Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Exploration

    From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan

    by Kenneth Pletcher ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Adventurers
    The Age of Exploration, which spanned roughly from 1400 to 1550, was the first time in history that European powers—eyeing new trade routes to the East or seeking to establish empires—began actively looking far past their own borders to gain a better understanding of the world and its many resources. The individuals who set out on behalf of the countries they represented came from a variety of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru

    by Titu Cusi Yupanqui ...
    Translated by Ralph Bauer ...
    Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui - the penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty - to a Spanish missionary and transcribed by a mestizo assistant. The resulting hybrid document offers an Inca perspective on the Spanish conquest of Peru, filtered through ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • A History of Medieval Spain

    by Joseph F. O'Callaghan ...
    This book is a comprehensive narrative history based on an impressively wide reading in the sources and secondary literature. It should prove useful to teachers, students, and general readers in European history.... Soundly traditional in its organization, it gives primacy to political events without neglecting institutional, social, and cultural matters.―American Historical ReviewIllustrations, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The History of the Incas

    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
    Translated by Brian S. Bauer ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    A new translation and introduction to an invaluable source of information on the last and largest empire to develop in the indigenous Americas.The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the capital of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Isabella of Castile

    Europe's First Great Queen

    by Giles Tremlett ...
    A major biography of the queen who transformed Spain into a principal global power, and sponsored the voyage that would open the New World.In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal), a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume One

    by St. Teresa of Avila, Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. ...
    Series series The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila
    The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume One contains Letters from 1546 to 1577Includes Introductions, Endnotes, Biographical Sketches.St. Teresa of Avila wrote candidly the story of both her life and her work as foundress in two books: the Life and the Foundations. Despite her openness in them, she wrote with the knowledge they would be read by her censors. Her letters, then, exhibit ... Read more

    $16.42 CAD

  • The History of Cuba : Volume I (Illustrated)

    by Willis Fletcher Johnson ...
    “Cuba was thus in her foundation the fortunate recipient of the rugged and masterful spirit of Estremadura, and of the elements of government and of social grace and intellectual power which Seville could so well and so abundantly supply; and these two contrasting yet by no means incompatible elements became characteristic of the Cuban people; complementarily contributing to the development of a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD