Barangay
Barangay

Author: William Henry Scott

Publisher: Ateneo University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9789715501354

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Barangay presents a sixteenth-century Philippine ethnography. Part One describes Visayan culture in eight chapters on physical appearance, food and farming, trades and commerce, religion, literature and entertainment, natural science, social organization, and warfare. Part Two surveys the rest of the archipelago from south to north.

Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico
Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico

Author: Tatiana Seijas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1107063124

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This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.

The Spanish Lake
The Spanish Lake

Author: Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2004-11-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1920942165

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This work is a history of the Pacific, the ocean that became a theatre of power and conflict shaped by the politics of Europe and the economic background of Spanish America. There could only be a concept of &�the Pacific once the limits and lineaments of the ocean were set and this was undeniably the work of Europeans. Fifty years after the Conquista, Nueva Espaą and Peru were the bases from which the ocean was turned into virtually a Spanish lake.

The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522
The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522

Author: Antonio Pigafetta

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0802093701

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The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.

South America
South America

Author: James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13:

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This book describes a journey through western and southern South America from Panama to Argentina and Brazil via the Straits of Magellan.

A Short History of the World
A Short History of the World

Author: Herbert George Wells

Publisher: Binker North

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13:

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A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History.