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You don't have to be a history lover to enjoy Bernal Diaz del Castillo's first-person narrative "The Conquest of New Spain." His personal tale about being a conquistador during the fall of the Aztec empire is filled with beautiful imagery, frightful battles, and unspoken orders that occurred during the 1500's. The account also describes the Aztec culture with profound detail and insight; Castillo was amazed at the wonders of the Aztecs, yet he never...
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496 - 1584) fue un conquistador español que participó en la conquista de México en el siglo XVI. "Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España" es una obra de estilo cautivador desde las primeras líneas. Nos narra el proceso de la conquista de México de una manera ruda, aunque sencilla, ágil y directa. Cada página es un retrato pintoresco plagado de detalles. Leer su libro es transportarse al pasado y vivir...
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Verso
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2023.
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"In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808-14), Napoleon's six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor's devastating defeat against the popular opposition--the guerrillas--and their British and Portuguese allies. As well as relating the histories of the great political and military figures of the war, Fraser brings to life the anonymous masses--the artisans, peasants and women who fought, suffered and died--and...
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"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cort�es walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...
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Films Media Group
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[2016]
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Español
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Experts discuss the omens and myth of Quetzalcoatl that influenced Moctezuma's caution while dealing with the Spaniards who would have been easily defeated; and they differ on whether Moctezuma was clever to postpone attach until the Spinards' forces were divided by the Governor of Cuba's attempt to arrest Cortes.
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Films Media Group
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[2016]
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Español
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From the colonial hispanism, to the most adverse expressions of the indigenismo in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Conquest of Mexico and its protagonists have been valued differently through time. In this final chapter of the series, travel through a journey through these expressions, appreciating the legacy left through the centuries.
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"On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cortés's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched...
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Crabtree Publishing Company
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[2016]
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English
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Pack your bags-we're going on an incredible trip! Travel with the Great Explorers takes you on some of the most remarkable journeys of exploration. Discover where the explorers went, why they went there, how they got there, and what went right and wrong along the way. Raised in terrible poverty, Francisco Pizarro became a soldier of fortune in a quest for wealth and success. When he heard stories of a rich empire in South America, he decided to find...
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"Diego de Godoy sets off for South America in 1518 with Cortés and the conquistadors. During his travels he falls in love with Ignacia, a native woman who introduces him to the secrets of the most delicious drink he has ever tasted: chocolate. Tragically, their passionate affair is cut short by the chaotic conquest of Mexico. Diego later discovers that his lover had secretly added the elixir of life to his chocolate. Unable to die, he lives on through...
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Skyhorse Publishing
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[2014]
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English
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"More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this brilliant study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life by the careful research and entertaining storytelling of Peter G. Tsouras. Tsouras introduces the reader to the colossal personalities of the period: Smoking Frog, the Mexican Machiavelli, the Poet Warlord, the Lion of Anahuac, and others...
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New Directions
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1999.
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"The convergence of Cortes and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on the eve of Good Friday, 1519, Hernan Cortes felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and civilize the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, 1519 (known in their advanced astronomical system as "One Reed") was...
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Oxford University Press
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[2023]
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English
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A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily...
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Old Man's War universe volume 6
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2015.
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Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human Division
Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for
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Harper
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2007.
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English
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When a secret group of Spaniards threatens the alliance between England and Spain in the fight against Bonaparte, Captain Richard Sharpe and his unit of British soldiers must save the alliance and foil their plans to embarrass the British.
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FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar la nueva novela de la laureada escritora mexicana Laura Esquivel, Malinche, narrada por la estrella mexicana Lucia Méndez.
Cuando Malinalli conoce a Cortés, asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcóatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortés.
A lo largo de la historia de México...
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The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's powers, have colonized a green world and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. In this, the final book in the Dune Chronicles, Herbert again creates a world of breathtakingly evolved characters and the contexts in which to appreciate them. The richness of detail and perspective fascinates, while the multi-layered plot evolves as pages...
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The Sharpe novels volume 14
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
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