The Golden Age
The Spanish Empire of Charles V
$59.41
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2012
Summary
The second part of Hugh Thomas’ magisterial history of the Spanish Empire.
Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas’s great history of the Spanish Empire. It begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan’s expedition around the world in 1522 and ends with Charles’s death in 1558. In the decades between, the Spaniards conquer Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Chile, and control the banks of the mighty…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141034492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141034491 |
| Author: | Hugh Thomas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Hugh Thomas
In 2008, Hugh Thomas was made a Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France. In 2009, he received the Calvo Serer Prize, The Boccacio Prize, and Nonino Prize in Italy.
He is the author of, among other books:
- The Spanish Civil War (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award)
- The Suez Affair
- Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom
- An Unfinished History of the World
- Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico
- The Slave Trade
- Rivers of Gold (the first volume of his Spanish Empire trilogy, reissued to coincide with the publication of the second volume)
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