The Body Of The Conquistador

Author : Rebecca Earle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003423
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body of the Conquistador written by Rebecca Earle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.

Author : Rebecca Earle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107693292
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body of the Conquistador written by Rebecca Earle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could European bodies thrive in the Indies? Would Indians turn into Spaniards if they ate Spanish food? This fascinating history of food, colonisation and race shows that attitudes about food were fundamental to European colonialism and understandings of physical difference in the Age of Discovery.

Author : Dennis B. Blanton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356352
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistador's Wake written by Dennis B. Blanton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published with the generous support of Fernbank"--Title page.

Author : S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101043938
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistador written by S. M. Stirling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?”—Publishers Weekly Oakland, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, has made a fabulous discovery: A portal to an alternate America where Europeans have never set foot—and the only other humans in sight are a band of very curious Indians. Able to return at will to the modern world, Rolfe summons the only people with whom he is willing to share his discovery: his war buddies. And tells them to bring their families... Los Angeles, twenty-first century. Fish and Game warden Tom Christiansen is involved in the bust of a smuggling operation. What he turns up is something he never anticipated: a photo of authentic Aztec priests decked out in Grateful Dead T-shirts, and a live condor from a gene pool that doesn’t correspond to any known in captivity or the wild. It is a find that will lead him to a woman named Adrienne Rolfe—and a secret that’s been hidden for sixty years…

Author : Rebecca Earle
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340843
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Native written by Rebecca Earle and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Return of the Native offers a look at the role of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the Incas in the imagination of Spanish American elites in the first century after independence.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807055076
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maya Conquistador written by Matthew Restall and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan was part of an ongoing pattern of adaptation and survival for centuries.

Author : Joshua Isard
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN 13 : 1935955551
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistador of the Useless written by Joshua Isard and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Isard’s debut novel is a hoot. Our hero Nathan Wavelsky moves into the burbs with his wife. Life is good. He’s a successful slacker. He doesn’t want to rock the boat. His definition of a good time is listening to his favorite bands on his iPod and staring at the grass and the poplar trees in his backyard. As a mid-level corporate manager, he does what his bosses tell him. If they want somebody fired, he fires them. No questions asked. But the boat does start to rock. He innocently gives a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle to a teenage girl and his neighbors are righteously appalled. His wife’s hormones start to tango and now she wants a baby. Sure, he enjoys sex, but that doesn’t mean he wants a baby in the house. Worse, his best friend wants him to climb Mount Everest. Nathan likes the solitude of camping and hiking, but climbing in the Himalayas? He could die, for God’s sake. He just wants to be left alone. But no chance. Shit begins to happen. Joshua Isard developed and is the director of Arcadia University’s low-residency MFA Creative Writing program. Since the program is high tech and has a study abroad component, it gives him a chance to enjoy two of his favorite things at work: travel and Apple products. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthologies The Lie of the Land and Outlandish Affairs. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and two cats.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199839751
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest written by Matthew Restall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the fallacies and misconceptions behind each myth. This vividly written and authoritative book shows, for instance, that native Americans did not take the conquistadors for gods and that small numbers of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. We discover that Columbus was correctly seen in his lifetime--and for decades after--as a briefly fortunate but unexceptional participant in efforts involving many southern Europeans. It was only much later that Columbus was portrayed as a great man who fought against the ignorance of his age to discover the new world. Another popular misconception--that the Conquistadors worked alone--is shattered by the revelation that vast numbers of black and native allies joined them in a conflict that pitted native Americans against each other. This and other factors, not the supposed superiority of the Spaniards, made conquests possible. The Conquest, Restall shows, was more complex--and more fascinating--than conventional histories have portrayed it. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest offers a richer and more nuanced account of a key event in the history of the Americas.

Author : Buddy Levy
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553384716
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistador written by Buddy Levy and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually annihilating a proud and accomplished native people is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story. In Tenochtitlán Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas and ruler of a city whose splendor equaled anything in Europe. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.

Author : Francisco López de Gómara
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cortés. The Life of the Conqueror written by Francisco López de Gómara and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: