Bulletin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bulletin write by . This book was released on 1944. Bulletin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Geographers
Geographers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographers write by Patrick H. Armstrong. This book was released on 2015-12-14. Geographers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An annual collection of studies on major contributors to the development of geography and gepgraphical thought, Patrick H. Armstrong is Adjunct Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Geoffrey Martin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Geography)at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, and Archivist of the Association of American Geographers.
The Political Systems of Empires
The Political Systems of Empires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Systems of Empires write by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt. This book was released on . The Political Systems of Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Viriathus
Viriathus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Viriathus write by Luis Silva. This book was released on 2013-07-30. Viriathus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the middle years of the second century BC, Rome was engaged in the conquest and pacification of what is now Spain and Portugal. They met with determined resistance from several tribes but nobody defied them with more determination and skill than Viriathus. Apparently of humble birth, he emerged as a leader after the treacherous massacre of the existing tribal chieftains and soon proved himself a gifted and audacious commander. Relying on hit and run guerrilla tactics, he inflicted repeated humiliating reverses upon the theoretically superior Roman forces, uniting a number of tribes in resistance to the invader and stalling their efforts at conquest and pacification for eight years. Still unbeaten in the field, he was only overcome when the Romans resorted to bribing some of his own men to assassinate him (though they reneged on the agreed payment, claiming they did not reward traitors!). Though renowned in his day Viriathus has been neglected by modern historians, a travesty that Luis Silva puts right in this thoroughly researched and accessible account. Portuguese by birth, the author draws on Portuguese research and perspectives that will be refreshing to English-language scholars and his own military experience also informs his analysis of events. What emerges is a stirring account of defiance, heroic resistance against the odds and, ultimately, treachery and tragedy.
Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823
Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823 write by Aaron Pollack. This book was released on 2019-04-18. Independence in Central America and Chiapas, 1770–1823 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central America and Chiapas. The contributors, distinguished scholars from Central America, North America, and Europe, consider themes of power, rebellion, sovereignty, and resistance throughout the Kingdom of Guatemala beginning in the late eighteenth century and ending with independence from Spain and the debate surrounding the decision to join the Mexican Empire. Their work reveals that a “conflict-free” separation from Spain was more complex than is usually understood, and shows how such a separation was crucial to late-nineteenth-century developments. These essays tell us how different groups seized on the political instabilities of Spain to maximize their interests; how Latin American elites prepared elaborate rituals to legitimize power dynamics; why the Spanish military governor Bustamante’s role in Central America should be reconsidered; how Indian and popular uprisings had more to do with tax burdens than with independence rhetoric; how the scholastic thought of Thomas Aquinas played a role in political thinking during the independence period; and why Mexico’s Plan de Iguala, the independence program promoted by Agustín de Iturbide, finally broke Central American elites’ ties to Spain. Focusing on regional and small-town dynamics as well as urban elites, these essays combine to offer an unusually broad and varied perspective on and a new understanding of Central America in the period of independence.
