The Golden Empire - 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 Golden Empire write by Hugh Thomas. This book was released on 2011-08-23. The Golden Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French and expanded the Spanish empire, and the bold conquistadors who were his agents. Thomas brings to life King Charles V—first as a gangly and easygoing youth, then as a liberal statesman who exceeded all his predecessors in his ambitions for conquest (while making sure to maintain the humanity of his new subjects in the Americas), and finally as a besieged Catholic leader obsessed with Protestant heresy and interested only in profiting from those he presided over. The Golden Empire also presents the legendary men whom King Charles V sent on perilous and unprecedented expeditions: Hernán Cortés, who ruled the “New Spain” of Mexico as an absolute monarch—and whose rebuilding of its capital, Tenochtitlan, was Spain’s greatest achievement in the sixteenth century; Francisco Pizarro, who set out with fewer than two hundred men for Peru, infamously executed the last independent Inca ruler, Atahualpa, and was finally murdered amid intrigue; and Hernando de Soto, whose glittering journey to settle land between Rio de la Palmas in Mexico and the southernmost keys of Florida ended in disappointment and death. Hugh Thomas reveals as never before their torturous journeys through jungles, their brutal sea voyages amid appalling storms and pirate attacks, and how a cash-hungry Charles backed them with loans—and bribes—obtained from his German banking friends. A sweeping, compulsively readable saga of kings and conquests, armies and armadas, dominance and power, The Golden Empire is a crowning achievement of the Spanish world’s foremost historian.
Despoilers of the Golden Empire
Despoilers of the Golden Empire - 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 Despoilers of the Golden Empire write by Randall Garrett. This book was released on 2016-01-21. Despoilers of the Golden Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I In the seven centuries that had elapsed since the Second Empire had been founded on the shattered remnants of the First, the nobles of the Imperium had come slowly to realize that the empire was not to be judged by the examples of its predecessor. The First Empire had conquered most of the known universe by political intrigue and sheer military strength; it had fallen because that same propensity for political intrigue had gained over every other strength of the Empire, and the various branches and sectors of the First Empire had begun to use it against one another. The Second Empire was politically unlike the First; it tried to balance a centralized government against the autonomic governments of the various sectors, and had almost succeeded in doing so. But, no matter how governed, there are certain essentials which are needed by any governmental organization. Without power, neither Civilization nor the Empire could hold itself together, and His Universal Majesty, the Emperor Carl, well knew it. And power was linked solidly to one element, one metal, without which Civilization would collapse as surely as if it had been blasted out of existence. Without the power metal, no ship could move or even be built; without it, industry would come to a standstill.
Heart of the Golden Empire
Heart of the Golden Empire - 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 Heart of the Golden Empire write by Richard C. Bailey. This book was released on 1984. Heart of the Golden Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE
DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE - 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 DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE write by DAVID GORDON. This book was released on 2023-06-19. DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE and The Foreign Hand Tie by DAVID GORDON are intriguing science fiction stories that explore themes of power, colonization, and cultural clash. The imaginative narratives provide thrilling twists and provocative insights.
Searching for Golden Empires
Searching for Golden 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 Searching for Golden Empires write by William K. Hartmann. This book was released on 2014-10-23. Searching for Golden Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ""In Searching for Golden Empires, William K. Hartmann tells a true-life adventure story that recounts the shared history of the United States and Mexico, unveiling episodes both tragic and uplifting. Hernan Cortez Montezuma, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza are just some of the principal eyewitnesses in this vivid history of New World exploration"--Provided by publisher.
