Portugal and Spain on the “International Adventurer" - 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 Portugal and Spain on the “International Adventurer" write by Mark J. Curran. This book was released on 2020-12-17. Portugal and Spain on the “International Adventurer" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Portugal and Spain on the 'International Adventurer'" is historical fiction and continues the travel adventures of Professor Mike Gaherty with IA "Assistant Adventurer Leader" Amy Carrier and a volatile cast of fictional adventurers traversing Portugal and Spain. One sees the best of these two off and on enemies and competitive nations - monuments, Literary Personages, food and wine, and "Pousadas" and "Paradores." Travel, controversy and dangerous moments from post - Salazar and post - Franco days ensue.
U.S. History
U.S. History - 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 U.S. History write by P. Scott Corbett. This book was released on 2024-09-10. U.S. History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Spain and Portugal in the New World
Spain and Portugal in the New World - 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 Spain and Portugal in the New World write by Lyle N. McAlister. This book was released on 1984. Spain and Portugal in the New World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Spanish and Portuguese expansion substantially altered the social, political, and economic contours of the modern world. In his book, Lyle McAlister provides a narrative and interpretive history of the exploration and settlement of the Americas by Spain and Portugal. McAlister divides this period (and the book) into three parts. First, he describes the formation of Old World societies with particular attention to those features that influenced the directions and forms of overseas expansion. Second, he traces the dynamic processes of conquest and colonization that between 1492 and about 1570 firmly established Spanish and Portuguese dominion in the New World. The third part deals with colonial growth and consolidation down to about 1700. McAlister's main themes are: the post-conquest territorial expansion that established the limits of what later came to be called Latin America, the emergence of distinctively Spanish and Portuguese American societies and economies, the formation of systems of imperial control and exploitation, and the ways in which conflicts between imperial and American interests were reconciled. This comprehensive history, with its extensive bibliographic essay and attention to historiographic issues, will be a standard reference for students and scholars of the period.
"Adventure Travel" A New Partnership
"Adventure Travel" A New Partnership - 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 "Adventure Travel" A New Partnership write by Mark J. Curran. This book was released on 2024-01-08. "Adventure Travel" A New Partnership available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "ADVENTURE TRAVEL" - A NEW PARTNERSHIP The Royal Princess is a return to the author's "Adventure Travel" series, now the 6th. It is based on real travel but made fiction. Professor Mike Gaherty and Assistant Expedition Leader Amy Carrier, long time friends and collegues and some time lovers, reconnect in a new venture for AT - a Partnership with Princess Lines. AT in effect will add to the passenger list of an itinerary already planned by Princess for Fall, 1989. "The Mediterranean - A Voyage into History" is ambitious with stops in ten destinations. The author has chosen to follow the Greek and Roman Classic Epics in his plan for the book - 10 Chapters or "Cantos." 1. Rome 2. Venice 3. Dubrovnik 4. Crete and Heraklion 5. Ephesus 6. Istanbul 7. Yalta and Odessa 8. The Bosporos and on Board the Royal Princess 9. The Greek Cyclades - Delos and Mykonos 10. Anthens and Sounion. The book aims to inform and entertain, in effect, to introduce the reader to the basics of history and culture of a significant part of Western Civilization and have fun at the same time.
Monarchs
Monarchs - 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 Monarchs write by Peter Francis Kenny. This book was released on 2016-02-25. Monarchs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of Europe and the Middle East have been governed by a king, Queen, Emperor, or Empress. These individuals in most cases began a dynasty which lasted many years, and are still reigning today. The Roman Empire grew so huge and vast that it needed two Emperors to rule both East and West, while the Middle Eastern countries suffered under their control. Russia was ruled by Tsars, and a great many dynasties existed. This book takes a look at these leaders, and uncovers the facts surrounding the reigns of these leaders.
