Download or read book History of Micronesia written by Rodrigue Lévesque and published by Gatineau, Quebec : Éditions Lévesque = Lévesque Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Physical Anthropology written by Frank Spencer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative study of humans as biological organisms, their evolution, and their physiological and anatomical functions and ecology of primates surveys the entire field and summarizes and organizes the basic knowledge, fundamental principles and development.

Download or read book Juan Ladrilleros written by Ramón Arriagada and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los canales del sur de Chile tranquilos a ratos; tormentosos, intrincados y fantasmagóricos todo el tiempo, hasta el siglo XVI sólo conocían la presencia humana de los indios alacalufes que en inestables y débiles canoas los merodeaban. En el mes de octubre de 1557 aparecen desde el Golfo de Penas avanzando hacia el sur dos bien pertrechados bergantines españoles en procura de encontrar la boca nor-occidental del Estrecho de Magallanes. Una de estas embarcaciones es el "San Luis" que lleva como capitán al ilustre marino español Juan Ladrilleros. Piloto formado en una escuela de élite como fue la de Sevilla, dependiente de la poderosa Casa de Contratación. Enviado por el gobernador García Hurtado de Mendoza, tiene como mandato llegar hasta el Estrecho y tomar posesión de este paso en nombre del Virreinato del Perú y la Gobernación de Chile. La lectura de este documentado histórico, le permitirá al lector conocer las motivaciones de Ladrilleros para navegar en una misión por los mares más inhóspitos de la tierra. Su autor, residente y conocedor de esos mares, nos entrega las vivencias y sensaciones de una sorprendente navegación.

Download or read book El capit n de la Victoria written by María Saavedra Inaraja and published by Ciudadela Libros. This book was released on with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalina vive despreocupada con sus padres y hermanos en la villa de Valladolid hasta que, al cumplir catorce años, su madre le anuncia que tiene que revelarle una información oculta hasta el momento. Intrigada, escucha la verdad sobre su nacimiento, algo que jamás había sospechado y que hace que su mundo se derrumbe: su verdadero padre no es el esposo de su madre, sino el marino de Guetaria que otorgó a Castilla la gloria de ser el primero en dar la vuelta al mundo: el capitán Juan Sebastián Elcano. Junto al testamento del navegante, que llega a sus manos diez años después de su redacción, Elcano deja a su hija el relato de su vida. A través de estas páginas nos asomamos a su infancia y juventud en su Guetaria natal, a Sevilla, Puerto de Indias, principal enlace marítimo con la América española, ciudad bulliciosa y alegre donde se dan cita mercaderes, navegantes, nobles, científicos y aventureros. En la apasionante crónica dictada a Andrés de Urdaneta, Juan Sebastián refiere los preparativos para la expedición, la rivalidad entre españoles y portugueses, y las aventuras y desventuras que acontecieron a lo largo de los tres años que supuso la circunnavegación de la superficie terrestre. Al pisar tierra firme, al tiempo que su fama se extendía, le esperaban decepciones y recompensas, amor e ingratitud.

Download or read book Francisco L pez de G mara s General History of the Indies written by and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies. Including substantial critical annotations and providing access to various readings and passages added to or removed from the successive editions of the 1550s, this translation expands the archive of texts available to English speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America. General History of the Indies was the first universal history of the recent discoveries and conquests of the New World made available to the Old World audience. At publication it consisted of two parts: the first a general history of the European discovery, conquest, and settlement of the Americas, and the second a detailed description of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico. Part one—in the multiple Spanish editions and translations into Italian and French published at the time—was the most comprehensive, popular, and accessible account of the natural history and geography of the Americas, the ethnology of the peoples of the New World, and the history of the Spanish conquest, including the most recent developments in Peru. Despite its original and continued importance, however, it had never been translated into English. Gómara’s history communicates Europeans’ general understanding of the New World throughout the middle and later sixteenth century. A lively, comparatively brief description of Europe’s expansion into the Americas with significant importance to today’s understanding of the early modern worldview, Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies will be of great interest to students of and specialists in Latin American history, Latin American literature, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as specialists in Spanish American intellectual history and colonial Latin America.

Download or read book Spice written by Roger Crowley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control. Roger Crowley shows how this struggle shaped the modern world. From 1511 to 1571, European powers linked up the oceans, established vast maritime empires, and gave birth to global trade, all in the attempt to control the supply of spices. Taking us on voyages from the dockyards of Seville to the vastness of the Pacific, the volcanic Spice Islands of Indonesia, the Arctic Circle, and the coasts of China, this is a narrative history rich in vivid eyewitness accounts of the adventures, shipwrecks, and sieges that formed the first colonial encounters—and remade the world economy for centuries to follow.

Download or read book Creating Christian Granada written by David Coleman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada-Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula-surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands of Christian immigrant settlers, transformed the formerly Muslim city into a Christian one. With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand and sixteenth-century Spanish imperialism in the Americas on the other, Coleman carefully charts the changes in the conquered city's social, political, religious, and physical landscapes. In the process, he sheds light on the local factors contributing to the emergence of tensions between the conquerors and Granada's formerly Muslim, "native" morisco community in the decades leading up to the crown-mandated expulsion of most of the city's moriscos in 1569-1570. Despite the failure to assimilate the moriscos, Granada's status as a frontier Christian community under construction fostered among much of the immigrant community innovative religious reform ideas and programs that shaped in direct ways a variety of church-wide reform movements in the era of the ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563). Coleman concludes that the process by which reforms of largely Granadan origin contributed significantly to transformations in the Church as a whole forces a reconsideration of traditional "top-down" conceptions of sixteenth-century Catholic reform.

Download or read book The Faith and the Fury written by Maria Thomas and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spain, the five-year period following the proclamation of the Republic in April 1931 was marked by physical assaults upon the property and public ritual of the Spanish Catholic Church. These attacks were generally carried out by rural and urban anticlerical workers who were frustrated by the Republic's practical inability to tackle the Church's vast power. On July 17/18, 1936, a right-wing military rebellion divided Spain geographically, provoking the radical fragmentation of power in the territory which remained under Republican authority. The coup marked the beginning of a conflict which developed into a full-scale civil war. Anticlerical protagonists, with the reconfigured structure of political opportunities working in their favor, participated in an unprecedented wave of iconoclasm and violence against the clergy. During the first six months of the conflict, innumerable religious buildings were destroyed and almost 7,000 religious personnel were killed. To date, scholarly interpretations of these violent acts were linked to irrationality, criminality, and primitiveness. However, the reasons for these outbursts are more complex and deep-rooted: Spanish popular anticlericalism was undergoing a radical process of reconfiguration during the first three decades of the 20th century. During a period of rapid social, cultural, and political change, anticlerical acts took on new - explicitly political - meanings, becoming both a catalyst and a symptom of social change. After July 17/18, 1936, anticlerical violence became a constructive force for many of its protagonists: an instrument with which to build a new society. This book explores the motives, mentalities, and collective identities of the groups involved in anticlericalism, during the pre-war Spanish Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War. It will be is essential reading for all those interested in 20th-century Spanish history.

Download or read book Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands The Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525 1535 written by Glen Frank Dille and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, (1478–1557), warden of the fortress and port of Santo Domingo of the Island of Hispaniola, also served his emperor, Charles V, as the official chronicler of the first half-century of the Spanish presence in the New World. His monumental General y Natural Historia de las Indias, consisting of three parts, with fifty books, hundreds of chapters and thousands of pages, is still a major primary source for researchers of the period 1492–1548. Part One, consisting of 19 books, was first published in 1535, then reprinted and augmented in 1547, with a third edition, including Book XX, the first book of Part II, appearing in Valladolid in 1557. Book XX, which was printed separately in Valladolid in 1557 (the year of Oviedo’s death), concerns the first three Spanish voyages to the East Indies. While it might be expected that the narrative of Magellan’s voyage would predominate in Book XX, Oviedo devoted only the first four chapters to this monumental voyage. The remaining thirty–one concern the two subsequent and little-known Spanish follow-up expeditions to the Moluccas 1525-35. The first, initially led by García Jofre de Loaysa, set out from Coruña to follow Magellan’s route through the Strait and across the Pacific. A second relief expedition under Alvaro Saavedra was sent out in search of Loaysa’s company from the Pacific coast of New Spain in 1527. In each venture only one vessel reached the Spice Islands. Oviedo’s narrative offers many details of the 10 years of hardships and conflict with the Portuguese, endured by the stoic Spanish, and of the growing unrest it provoked among their indigenous hosts. The news that Charles V had pawned his claim to the King João III of Portugal allowed a very few of the Spaniards to negotiate a passage back to Spain via Lisbon, while others remained in Portuguese settlements in the East Indies. The reports made by the returnees to the Consejo de Indias were integrated by Oviedo into his narrative, expanded and enriched by personal interviews. His chronicle includes much information about the indigenous culture, commerce, geography and of the exotic fauna and flora of the Spice Islands.

Download or read book Historia m nima de Espa a written by Juan Pablo Fusi and published by Turner. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una brevísima historia de España desde Altamira hasta el siglo XXI en 300 páginas (el que incluyen cronología, bibliografía y mapas originales) escrita por uno de los historiadores más prestigiosos de nuestro país: Juan Pablo Fusi. Un libro imprescindible para lectores de todas las edades, conocedores o no de la historia de España, para recordar, reflexionar, aprender o imaginar. La tesis del autor es que la historia siempre ha podido ser otra, que la historia no está determinada ni es inevitable. Con mapas originales, diseñados en exclusiva para este libro por Javier Belloso (colaborador del suplemento El Viajero de El País) Juan Pablo Fusi (San Sebastián, 1945) catedrático de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, doctor en Historia y en Filosofía. En el extranjero se formó en Oxford con el profesor Raymond Carr. Entre 1976 y 1980 fue director del Centro de Estudios Ibéricos del St. Antony’s College de esa universidad. Entre 1986 y 1991 fue director de la Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid).

Download or read book Historia de Juan Sebasti n Elcano written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities written by Jaime-Chaim Shulman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Chaim Shulman presents an analysis of three projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s–1610s. The technical and economic differences between these projects resulted from external conditions not directly related to the water supply problem. Although the same basic technology was apparently available at the time in all cases, the geographical, engineering, entrepreneurial and cultural nature of each region differed. The inhabitants’ wellbeing improvement achieved varied accordingly. Much broader insights are drawn on the policies of the three monarchies regarding the initiative of and support for grand scale public works in general.

Download or read book Spanish B for the IB Diploma Second Edition written by Mike Thacker and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam board: International Baccalaureate Level: IB Diploma Subject: Spanish First teaching: September 2018 First exams: Summer 2020 Develop competent communicators who can demonstrate a sound conceptual understanding of the language with a flexible course that ensures thorough coverage of the updated Spanish B Guide and is designed to meet the needs of all IB students at Standard and Higher Level. - Empower students to communicate confidently by exploring the five prescribed themes through authentic texts and skills practice at the right level, delivered in clear learning pathways. - Ensure students are able to produce coherent written texts and deliver proficient presentations with grammar and vocabulary introduced in context and in relation to appropriate spoken and written registers. - Improve receptive skills with authentic written texts, audio recordings spoken at a natural pace, and carefully crafted reading and listening tasks. - Promote global citizenship, intercultural understanding and an appreciation of Hispanic cultures through a wide range of text types and cultural material from around the world. - Deliver effective practice with a range of structured tasks within each unit that build reading, listening, speaking and writing skills. - Establish meaningful links to TOK and CAS, and identify learner profile attributes in action. The audio for the Student Book is FREE to download from www.hoddereducation.com/ibextras

Download or read book Empires to Nations written by Max Savelle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1974-09-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires to Nations was first published in 1974. 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. This history traces the growth of the Euroamerican societies in the Western Hemisphere during the eighteenth-century period of European expansion. Professor Savelle reviews the continuation and completion of the exploration of the American continent and describes the evolution of the New World empires of the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch, He devotes separate chapters to the development of the political structures of the colonies and the rivalries, wars, and diplomatic exchanges among the empires. He also reviews and analyzes the economic history of the colonial societies in their three-way relationships – with their mother countries, with each other, and within themselves as regional or local entities. Final chapters are devoted to the birth and growth of national self-consciousness among the new societies.

Download or read book The First Voyage around the World 1519 1522 written by Antonio Pigafetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-12-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good Hope, Pigafetta's The First Voyage around the World is a classic of discovery and exploration literature. This volume is based on the critical edition by Antonio Canova. It includes an extensive introduction to the work and generous annotations by Theodore J. Cachey Jr who discusses the marvelous elements of the story through allusions to Magellan's travels made by writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Gabriel García Márquez. However, Cachey is careful to point out that Pigafetta's book is far from just a marvel-filled travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and handsomely illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure to enlighten new readers and invigorate the imagination as the story has done since it first appeared.

Download or read book Fuentes de la Historia Espa ola E Hispanoamericana written by Benito Sánchez Alonso and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anarchists of Andalusia 1868 1903 written by Temma Kaplan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andalusian anarchism was a grassroots movement of peasants and workers that flourished in Cádiz Province, the richest sherry-producing area in the world, from about 1868 to 1903. This study focuses on the social and economic context of the movement, and argues that traditional interpretations of anarchism as irrational, spontaneous, or millenarian are not justified. The extensive archival research undertaken for this book leads Temma Kaplan to a major reinterpretation of the nature of anarchism. Using the police reports in local archives to reconstruct the lives of more than three hundred rank-and-file anarchists, Temma Kaplan shows that the Andalusian movement was highly organized and dedicated to defending the interests of workers and peasants through a wide variety of organizations. These included trade unions, workers' circles, and women's societies, all of which favored general strikes and insurrections rather than terrorism. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.