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How the Spanish Empire Was Built
A 400-Year History
Av Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Häftad, 2025
149 kr
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In the sixteenth century, Spain was small and divided, yet it built the largest empire in history. How? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo reveal the crucial role of engineers in this achievement. By investing in infrastructure that benefited local elites, Spain expanded its …
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World
Häftad, 2021
274 kr
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together …
How the Spanish Empire Was Built
A 400-Year History
Av Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Inbunden, 2024
449 kr
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Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this?Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. …
Our America
A Hispanic History of the United States
Häftad, 2014
201 kr
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Overlooking the significance of America’s Hispanic past, the United States is typically perceived as an offshoot of Britain, with its history unfolding east to west, beginning with the first settlers in Jamestown. In an absorbing narrative, Felipe Fernández-Armesto begins with the explorers and …
1492
The Year the Four Corners of the Earth Collided
E-bok, 2023
103 kr
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A study of events of 1492 and how they affect the global community of the world of today.The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began.In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey …
Foot in the River
Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution
E-bok, 2015
119 kr
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We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- …
Foot in the River
Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution
E-bok, 2015
119 kr
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We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- …
Oxford Illustrated History of the World
E-bok, 2019
177 kr
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings …
Oxford Illustrated History of the World
E-bok, 2019
177 kr
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings …
The Oxford History of the World
Häftad, 2023
160 kr
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Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It …
Oxford History of the World
E-bok, 2023
139 kr
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Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain. The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It …
Oxford History of the World
E-bok, 2023
139 kr
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Histories you can trust. Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain. The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It …
The Conquistadors
A Very Short Introduction
Av Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Häftad, 2012
116 kr
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With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they …
The Canary Islands after the Conquest
The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century
Inbunden, 1981
3366 kr
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The Canary Islands after the Conquest The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century
A Foot in the River
Why Our Lives Change - and the Limits of Evolution
Inbunden, 2015
454 kr
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We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live - …
A Foot in the River
Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution
Häftad, 2017
171 kr
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We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- …
So You Think You're Human?
A Brief History of Humankind
Häftad, 2005
227 kr
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You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have always been, human. Chimps and humans are …
Conquistadors
A Very Short Introduction
Av Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Matthew Restall
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world''s resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they …
Conquistadors
A Very Short Introduction
Av Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Matthew Restall
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world''s resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they …
Amerigo
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
E-bok, 2008
76 kr
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In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer. In Amerigo , the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto …
Our America
A Hispanic History of the United States
Inbunden, 2014
279 kr
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The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, …
Pathfinders
A Global History of Exploration
Häftad, 2007
225 kr
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Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the past five millennia, lay down the routes of …
Civilizations
Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
E-bok, 2001
209 kr
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In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. …
Americas
Häftad, 2004
151 kr
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A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the enlightened `first world' United States and Canada, …
