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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Updated Edition

    An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD

  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Leer más

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    The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

    Narrado por Matthew Restall ...

    Completo

    11 hora 43 minutos

    A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbus―his life, his legacy, and the many controversies that outlived him.Two thousand books have been written about Columbus, most of them spirited defenses or relentless attacks. Recently, the balance has shifted: the Genoese navigator, once considered a hero, is now blamed for bringing plunder and genocide to the Americas. In The Nine Lives of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Spirits of the Sacred Grove

    For many, the word Druidry conjures up images of white-robed figures involved in esoteric rituals. But modern Druidry is not wrapped up in a veil of secrecy - it is celebrated openly, in the sunlight of the meadow or the shady leafiness of forest glade. Druids are passionate about the environment, and their worship is above all focused on Nature through the celebration of the changing seasons of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

    **“Entertaining and unpredictable.… [S]urprising and significant.” —Andrés Reséndez, New York Times Book ReviewA gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbus—his life, his legacies, and the controversies that outlived him.**Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Conquest of Mexico

    500 Years of Reinventions

    The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed.In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Wakeful World

    Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature

    Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naïve and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul.Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall Orr explores the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD

  • 【牛津通識課05】馬雅:被誤解的中美洲文明

    The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series 牛津通識課
    馬雅文明在現代還存在嗎?馬雅人為何擁有如此獨到的藝術技術與品味?馬雅曆真的預言了世界末日?為何馬雅總是與神祕學和外星人脫不了關係?打開牛津大學出版社最受歡迎通識讀本,用最簡明的方式認識充滿神祕色彩的馬雅文化。馬雅人建立了美洲古代史上最強盛的社會,也是人類史上最強盛的社會之一。數千年來,他們居住在(現在仍然住在那裡)包含猶加敦半島的墨西哥南部、瓜地馬拉、貝里斯、宏都拉斯北部和薩爾瓦多西部等區域。在與歐洲人接觸前的很長一段時間,馬雅人建立了宏偉壯麗的城市,擁有大量人口,豐衣足食。他們擅長視覺藝術,並發展出用來記錄曆法、數學和天文學等特別知識的複雜文字。馬雅人並非以中央集權的方式來達成這樣的成就,他們從來沒有一個一統天下的馬雅王國或帝國,而是各地散居著許多逐漸形成、說著不... ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Mesoamerican Voices

    Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala

    Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD