In a world at war, there are but 2 ways to power. For over 700 years, two great nations have battled for control of the world of Seor. Hal Geran (a General in The Empire of Seor Yul) will find himself at the center of more than just a battle...more than he could imagine. He will face treachery at every turn, enemies at every side and a strange new threat from a sinister lord and his den of evil wizards. This is a story with many faces...many sides...but only one epic fate. Illustrations by Sophia Hsu. 506 Pages. Visit www.tarnishedheart.com for more info.
"History of the Conquest of Mexico" in 4 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian William Hickling Prescott. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:_x000D_ VIEW OF THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION:_x000D_ Ancient Mexico_x000D_ Aztec Empire_x000D_ Judicial System_x000D_ Military Institutions_x000D_ Mexican Mythology_x000D_ The Temples_x000D_ Astronomy_x000D_ Tezcucans_x000D_ Decline of their Monarchy..._x000D_ DISCOVERY OF MEXICO:_x000D_ Spain under Charles V._x000D_ Colonial Policy_x000D_ Expeditions to Yucatan_x000D_ Hernando Cortés_x000D_ Conversion of the Natives_x000D_ Great Battle with the Indians_x000D_ Christianity introduced_x000D_ Voyage along the Coast_x000D_ Spaniards land in Mexico..._x000D_ Account of Montezuma_x000D_ Spanish Encampment_x000D_ Plan of a Colony_x000D_ Management of Cortés_x000D_ Foundation of Vera Cruz_x000D_ Conspiracy in the Camp_x000D_ The Fleet Sunk_x000D_ MARCH TO MEXICO:_x000D_ Republic of Tlascala_x000D_ Desperate Battles_x000D_ Decisive Victory_x000D_ Peace with the Republic_x000D_ Spaniards enter Tlascala_x000D_ Terrible Massacre_x000D_ Ascent of the Great Volcano_x000D_ Entrance Into the Capital..._x000D_ RESIDENCE IN MEXICO:_x000D_ Description of the Capital_x000D_ Montezuma's Deportment_x000D_ Further Measures of Cortes…_x000D_ Montezuma swears Allegiance to Spain_x000D_ Politic Conduct of Cortés_x000D_ Discontent of the Troops_x000D_ Insurrection in the Capital_x000D_ Rising of the Aztecs…_x000D_ EXPULSION FROM MEXICO:_x000D_ Desperate Assault on the Quarters_x000D_ Storming of the Great Temple_x000D_ Death of Montezuma_x000D_ Retreat of the Spaniards_x000D_ Great Battle of Otumba_x000D_ War with the surrounding Tribes_x000D_ Spaniards cross the Sierra…_x000D_ SIEGE AND SURRENDER OF MEXICO:_x000D_ Arrangement at Tezcuco_x000D_ Battles at Xochimilco_x000D_ Narrow Escape of Cortés_x000D_ Conspiracy in the Army_x000D_ Beginning of the Siege…_x000D_ Indian Flotilla defeated_x000D_ General Assault on the City_x000D_ Successes of the Spaniards_x000D_ Termination of the Siege…_x000D_ SUBSEQUENT CAREER OF CORTÉS:_x000D_ Submission of the Country_x000D_ Rebuilding of the Capital_x000D_ Settlement of the Country_x000D_ Christian Missionaries_x000D_ Voyages and Expeditions_x000D_ Cortés Returns to Spain_x000D_ Brilliant Reception of Cortés_x000D_ Cortés revisits Mexico_x000D_ His Voyages of Discovery_x000D_ Final Return to Castile_x000D_ Death of Cortés…
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.
Historians are concerned today that the Spaniards' early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas should be balanced with accounts from the Indian perspective. We People Here reflects that concern, bringing together important and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl language in sixteenth-century Mexico. James Lockhart's superior translation combines contemporary English with the most up-to-date, nuanced understanding of Nahuatl grammar and meaning. The foremost Nahuatl conquest account is Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. In this monumental work, Fray Bernardino de Sahag�n commissioned Nahuas to collect and record in their own language accounts of the conquest of Mexico; he then added a parallel Spanish account that is part summary, part elaboration of the Nahuatl. Now, for the first time, the Nahuatl and Spanish texts are together in one volume with en face English translations and reproductions of the copious illustrations from the Codex. Also included are five other Nahua conquest texts. Lockhart's introduction discusses each one individually, placing the narratives in context.
'A superb work of narrative history' Antonia Fraser On 25 September 1513, a force of weary Spanish explorers cut through the forests of Panama and were confronted with an ocean: the Mar del Sur, or the Pacific Ocean. Six years later the Spaniards had established the town of Panama as a base from which to explore and exploit this unknown sea. It was the threshold of a vast expansion. From the first small band of Spanish adventurers to enter the mighty Inca empire, to the execution of the last Inca forty years later, The Conquest of the Incas is a story of bloodshed, infamy, rebellion and extermination, told as convincingly as if it happened yesterday. 'It is a delight to praise a book of this quality which combines careful scholarship with sparkling narrative skill' Philip Magnus, Sunday Times 'A superbly vivid history' The Times
