Preparation -- Expectations -- Hispaniola -- Failure -- Jamaica -- Imagining -- Surviving -- Conquering -- Settling In 1654, England's Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain's vast American empire. As the first phase of h…
In 1654, England's Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain's vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, a large expedition sailed to the West Indies, under secret orders to take Spanish colonies. The En…
Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative analyzes how early Muslim historians merged the pre-Islamic histories of the Arab and Iranian peoples into a didactic narrative culminating with the Arab conquest of Iran. This book provides an in-depth examination of Islamic …
"Through the stories of administrators, soldiers and subjects, describes how the East India Company went from a trading company to a quasi-imperial government with over a quarter of a million troops, whose high tax on tea helped spark the American Revolution, "--NoveList. "The …
Hospitallers and Ottomans between the two great sieges of Rhodes (1480-1522) / Alexios G. C. Savvides and Photeine V. Perra. -- How much did the Hospitallers know? Information, Misinformation and Preparation / Simon David Phillips -- The Hospitallers' Dodecanese Islands Before a…
Historical account of the Old World and the New, unlike Asia and Africa America never saw its colonizers leave.
Historical account of the Old World and the New, unlike Asia and Africa America never saw its colonizers leave.
Hernán Cortés: creador de la nacionalidad
Preface: The Time Loop of Mexico's Conquests / Matthew Restall -- Origins Reconsidered : Disputing the Conquest in Bourbon Mexico, 1740-1820 / Peter B. Villella -- Revisionist Histories of the Conquest after Independence / Kevin Terraciano -- The 1861-1867 Conquest of Mexico / P…