Conquistadors : the struggle for colonial power in Latin America, 1492-1825 /
This collection features expedition records, original letters and maps of exploration and colonization, and "diaries of discoveries" from South America, from narratives of Columbus' first voyage (at Sloane Ms 1709) to the end of Colonial Spanish rule. The set covers European exploitat...
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English French Italian Portuguese Spanish |
| Language Notes: | Languages include Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Italian. Also includes Bible translations in Quechua and other native languages and indigenous dramas and poems. |
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Woodbridge, Conn. : London :
Primary Source Microfilm ; British Library,
2003.
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| Summary: | This collection features expedition records, original letters and maps of exploration and colonization, and "diaries of discoveries" from South America, from narratives of Columbus' first voyage (at Sloane Ms 1709) to the end of Colonial Spanish rule. The set covers European exploitation, evangelization, and botanical and geographical exploration in South America from Texas to Tierra del Fuego, and features maps, scrolls, descriptions of voyages by sea and river, terrain, flora and fauna, settlement posts, plantations and mines, missionary activities, and "diaries of discoveries." |
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| Item Description: | Includes the British Library's "Venezuela Papers," a collection of 40 manuscript volumes of official letters and documents relating to the Spanish occupation of Trinidad, Margarita, Guiana, Venezuela and other adjacent provinces and islands and their differences there with the English, dating from 1530 to 1824. Documents are by Hernán Cortés, Antonio O'Brien, Pedro de Rivera, Félix de Azara, Jaime Rasquin, Don Francisco de Bucareli y Ursúa, John Chilton, Field-Marshal James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawly, Henry Coventry, Viscount William Carr Beresford, Lieutenant General John Whitelocke, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and many more. "Edited by: Geoffrey Scammell"--Gale Group's Primary Source Microfilm website. Territories represented include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Florida, Guatemala, Guiana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Patagonia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela and the West Indies. Microform. |
| Physical Description: | 105 microfilms : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 35 mm. + 1 guide (67 leaves ; 28 cm.). |