The War of Chupas
Author: Pedro de Cieza de León
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13:
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The War of Chupas
Author: Pedro de Cieza de León
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza is about de Cieza's magnificent travels through the beautiful country of Peru, and his despairing and horrified observations on the Peruvian Civil Wars. Excerpt: "PAGE Introduction CHAPTER I How the Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro went to the province of Arequipa to found a city there, and to apportion the Indians among the persons who were to remain there as citizens 1 CHAPTER II How the General Lorenzo de Aldana determined to send people to settle in Anzerma, a province which had been discovered by the captain Belalcázar, and how he named Jorge Robledo as captain of the settlement."
Civil Wars of Peru, by Pedro de Cieza de León (Part IV, Book II): The War of Chupas
Author: Sir Clements R. Markham
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1317165454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis forms part of the original Book II of Cieza's 'Civil Wars of Peru', translated and edited. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 54. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1918.
The World Encompassed
Author: G. V. Scammell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 1351014692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the world known to western Europeans was enlarged in a way unparalleled before or since. The book takes a broad historical perspective, linking the classic age of European expansion to its medieval antecedents. The Norse reached North America in the tenth century, Italian missionaries and traders were established in China in the high Middle Ages, and during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in some of the greatest voyages ever made under sail, Iberian explorers crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and established footholds in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This is a stimulating and perceptive study, based on wide-ranging research, which makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the influence of empire on both colonial and metropolitan societies.
The War of Quito
Author: Pedro de Cieza de León
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells about the Ecuadorian War of Independence and the events that led to this conflict. It contains some important documents and letters and presents an important source for historical research.
Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas
Author: Roberto A. Valdeón
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9027269408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America and by looking at the translations of the Spanish chronicles as instrumental in the promotion of other European empires. The book discusses literary, religious and administrative documents and engages in a dialogue with other disciplines that can provide a more nuanced view of the role of translation, and of the mediators, during the controversial encounter/clash between Europeans and Amerindians.
The Golden Dream
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2020-12-04
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 0821441027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most persistent legends in the annals of New World exploration is that of the Land of Gold. This mythical site was located over vast areas of South America (and later, North America); the search for it drove some men mad with greed and, as often as not, to their untimely deaths. In this history of quest and adventure, Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado. From the German conquistadores licensed by the Spanish king to operate out of Venezuela, to the journeys of Gonzalo Pizarro in the Amazon basin, and to the nearly miraculous voyage of Francisco Orellana to the mouth of the Amazon River, encountering the warlike women who gave the river its name, violence and bloodshed accompanied the determined adventurers. Sir Walter Raleigh and a host of other explorers spent small fortunes and many lives trying to locate Manoa, a city that was rumored to be El Dorado—City of Gold. Celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg recreates these legendary quests in The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado.
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Public Library
Author: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13:
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