World without end : Spain, Philip II, and the first global empire /
World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the ext...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines. It also describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world had seen since Rome, as well as conquistadores, the book is peopled with viceroys, judges, nobles, bishops, inquisitors and administrators of many different kinds, often in conflict with one another, seeking to organize the native populations into towns, and to build cathedrals, hospitals and universities. Behind them, sometimes ahead of them, came the religious orders, the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians and finally the Jesuits, builders of convents and monasteries, many of them of astonishing beauty, and reminders of the pervasiveness of religion and the self-confidence of the age. Towering above them all, though moving rarely from his palace outside Madrid, is the figure of King Philip II, whom a contemporary called 'the arbiter of the world.' This is a supreme historical epic, full of valor and imagination, ambition and influence, ruthlessness and humanity. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in 2014 in the United Kingdom by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books"--Title-page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 463 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps, genealogical charts ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812998115 (hardback) : 0812998111 (hardback) |