Autor(en)

Thomas, Hugh:

Verlag / Jahr

New York: Random House, 2014.

Format / Einband

Originalhardcover with dust jacket. XVIII, 463 p.: Ill., Maps.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 810 g

ISBN

0812998111

EAN

9780812998115

Bestell-Nr

1168728

Bemerkungen

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - kleine Flecken auf Kopf- und Fußschnitt, Vorderschnitt nur aufgeschnitten (Seiten haben keine einheitliche Größe und die Seitenränder sind unregelmäßig und faserig), sonst guter Zustand, beiliegend außerdem eine Rezension des Buches aus The New York Times Book Review / small stains on head and bottom edges, fore-edge only cut open (pages are not consistent in size and page edges are irregular and stringy), otherwise good condition, enclosed is a review of the book from The New York Times Book Review. - The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many I hands. But the dramatic human story of the JL extraordinary projection of Spanish might in the second half of the sixteenth century has never been fully told—until now. In World Without End, Hugh Thomas chronicles the lives, loves, conflicts, and conquests of the complex men and women who carved up the Americas for the glory of Spain. Chief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called “the arbiter of the world.” Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father, Emperor Charles V, but nevertheless felt himself unworthy to wield it. His forty-two-year reign changed the face of the globe forever. Alongside Philip we find the entitled descendants of New Spain’s original explorers—men who, like their king, came into possession of land they never conquered and wielded supremacy they never sought. Here too are the Roman Catholic religious leaders of the Americas, whose internecine struggles created possibilities that the emerging Jesuit order was well-positioned to fill. With the sublime stories of arms and armadas, kings and conquistadors come tales of the ridiculous: the opulent parties of New Spain’s wealthy hedonists and the unexpected movement to encourage Philip II to conquer China. Finally, Hugh Thomas unearths the first indictments of imperial Spain’s labor rights abuses in the Americas—and the early attempts by its more enlightened rulers and planters to address them. Written in the brisk, flowing narrative style that has come to define Hugh Thomas’s work, the final volume of this acclaimed trilogy stands alone as a history of an empire making the transition from conquest to inheritance—a history that Thomas reveals through the fascinating lives of the people who made it. / CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Maps Introduction Prologue: A Journey to Paris BOOK ONE Old Spain 1 King Philip II the Enlightened Despot 2 King Philip the Bureaucrat Monarch 3 King Philip and his Empire 4 An Imperial Theocracy 5 The Jesuit Challenge BOOK TWO Spain Imperial 6 Trouble in Mexico 7 The Sons of the Conquistadors Ask Too Much 8 New Spain in Peace 9 Viceroy Toledo at Work in Peru 10 Convents and Blessed Ones 11 Chile and its Conquerors 12 The Conquest of Yucatan 13 Conclusion in Yucatan 14 A Great Conquistador from Asturias 15 Franciscans in Yucatan 16 The Rivers Plate and Paraguay 17 The Mad Adventure of Lope de Aguirre 18 Guiana and El Dorado BOOK THREE The Imperial Backcloth 19 Portugal Joins Spain 20 The Money Behind the Conquests 21 Piracy and Buccaneering 22 The Galleon, a Very Narrow Prison 23 Populations Discovered BOOK FOUR The East in Fee 24 The Conquest of the Philippine Islands 25 Manila 26 The Temptation of China 27 The Conquest of China 28 Epilogue: The Age of Administration Appendices Genealogies Maps Bibliography Glossary Notes Index. ISBN 9780812998115

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