Download or read book Biographical and Critical Miscellanies by William H Prescott written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical and Critical Miscellanies by William H Prescott written by William H. Prescott and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1875 Edition.
Download or read book Biographical and Critical Essays written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of William H Prescott Ticknor G The life of Prescott written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Hickling Prescott written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.
Download or read book The History of the Conquest of Peru written by William H. Prescott and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescott's masterly History of the Conquest of Mexico, continues his vivid chronicle of Spanish exploits in the New World. The book's commanding vision of Pizarro's tumultuous overthrow of the Inca empire has secured its reputation as a classic in the literature of Latin American history. 'History of the Conquest of Peru represents an author's triumph over his materials,' observed Donald G. Darnell, one of the historian's several biographers. 'Prescott exploits to the fullest any opportunities for dramatic effects that history might provide him. . . . If there is one [distinguishing] feature of the Conquest of Peru . . . it is the portrayal of the Spanish character, that striking fusion of courage, cruelty, pride, and gallows humor. . . . We seem to be overhearing dialogue and observing firsthand the interaction between the Spaniards as they struggle for control of an empire. . . . Although Peru lacks a noble protagonist . . . it is still an immensely readable history. The description of the Inca civilization, particularly its wealth, the precise explanation of the cause of the conflict between the conquerors, and the depiction of the Spanish character--these together with the careful research, the sheer abundance of anecdotes, and the exploitation of primary materials all contribute to the history's continuing popularity.'
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing written by Kelly Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
Download or read book The Complete Works of William H Prescott Biographical and critical miscellanies written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Conquest of Mexico written by William H. Prescott and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. "Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."
Download or read book William Hickling Prescott written by Clinton Harvey Gardiner and published by Washington, Hispanic Foundation, Reference, Department, Library of Congress, 1958 [i.e. 1959]. This book was released on 1959 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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