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Book The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida  by Don Ferdinando de Soto

Download or read book The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando de Soto written by William B. Rye and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is reprinted from the Edition of 1611, edited, with notes and an introduction, along with a translation of a narrative of the expedition by Luis Hernandez de Biedma, factor to the same. For Hakluyt's translation, see The Hakluyt Handbook (Second Series, 144-5), pp. 42, 252-5. The translation of Hernandez de Biedma's narrative was made from Ternaux-Compans, Recueil de pièces sur la Floride, Paris, 1841. The supplementary material includes the 1850 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1851.

Book The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida

Download or read book The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida

Download or read book Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida written by Edward Gaylord Bourne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission

Download or read book Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission written by United States De Soto Expedition Commission and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A dictionary of books relating to America  from its discovery to the present time

Download or read book A dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book The True History of the Conquest of New Spain  By Bernal Diaz del Castillo  One of its Conquerors

Download or read book The True History of the Conquest of New Spain By Bernal Diaz del Castillo One of its Conquerors written by Alfred Percival Maudslay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued from Second Series 23, 24, 25, 30. Books XIV-XVII, translated into English and edited, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay, M.A., Hon. Professor of Archaeology, National Museum, Mexico, relating the expedition to Honduras, the return to Mexico, the rule of the Audiencia there, and the record of the conquistadores, with an appendix including the fifth letter of Cortés to the Emperor Charles V, 1526. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1916. Owing to technical constraints the Map of Tabasco, by Melchor Alfaro de Santa Cruz, 1579 is not included.

Book Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination

Download or read book Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination written by Luz Elena Ramirez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how these accounts inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith. The revision of history in the Amerindian adventure both entertained young transatlantic audiences and was a vehicle to attract tourism and investment in countries such as Mexico and Peru. Henty, Haggard, and Griffith, moreover, used their tales of adventure as a platform to impart British values to their readers. Such values compel the characters and narrators of the novels discussed to act as cultural mediators, to acquire indigenous languages and adopt native ways of being, and, in several of the romance adventures under consideration, to marry Mexican or Incan noblewomen. Part I, Conquest, examines George Henty’s By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico (1891), H. Rider Haggard’s Montezuma’s Daughter (1893), and George Griffith’s Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru (1898). Part II, Reclamation, argues that English re-writings of history work to eclipse the Spanish in Haggard’s Virgin the Sun (1922), Henty’s Treasure of the Incas (1902) and Griffith’s Romance of Golden Star (1897).

Book Eloquence Embodied

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  • Author : Céline Carayon
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2019-08-29
  • ISBN : 1469652633
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book Eloquence Embodied written by Céline Carayon and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other. French explorers and colonists in the sixteenth century noticed that Indigenous peoples from Brazil to Canada used signs to communicate. The French, in response, quickly embraced the nonverbal as a means to overcome cultural and language barriers. Celine Carayon's close examination of their accounts enables her to recover these sophisticated Native practices of embodied expressions. In a colonial world where communication and trust were essential but complicated by a multitude of languages, intimate and sensory expressions ensured that French colonists and Indigenous peoples understood each other well. Understanding, in turn, bred both genuine personal bonds and violent antagonisms. As Carayon demonstrates, nonverbal communication shaped Indigenous responses and resistance to colonial pressures across the Americas just as it fueled the imperial French imagination. Challenging the notion of colonial America as a site of misunderstandings and insurmountable cultural clashes, Carayon shows that Natives and newcomers used nonverbal means to build relationships before the rise of linguistic fluency--and, crucially, well afterward.

Book The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse

Download or read book The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse written by William Ridgeway and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorias antiguas historiales del Peru  by Fernando Montesinos

Download or read book Memorias antiguas historiales del Peru by Fernando Montesinos written by Sir Clements R. Markham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... compiled by P. A. Means'; 'List of words in the names of kings and Incas ...' and 'Quichua words in Montesinos'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1920.

Book Time  Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology

Download or read book Time Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology written by James McGlade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability over that of change. Change was primarily deemed due to external events (in archaeology mainly climatic or 'environmental'). Revolutionary innovations in the natural and life sciences, often (erroneously) referred to as 'chaos theory', suggest that there are ways to overcome this problem. A wide range of processes can be described in terms of dynamic systems, and modern computing methods enable us to investigate many of their properties. This volume presents a cogent argument for the use of such approaches, and a discussion of a number of its aspects by a range of scientists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.

Book The Red River in Southwestern History

Download or read book The Red River in Southwestern History written by Carl Newton Tyson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Red River in Southwestern History, Carl Newton Tyson traces the river’s history from the time of early Spanish and French explorers to the present day, leading his readers to a new appreciation of the river and the region. From the Staked Plains of the Texas Panhandle the river flows down to buffalo and prairie dog country and through the Cross Timbers. It continues eastward to the Great Bend and through the cypresses of Louisiana’s bayou country, joining the Mississippi River south of Natchez. Whereas the Red River was a source of water to the Spaniards as they searched for gold, at Natchitoches, French trader Louis Juchereau de St. Denis traded with the Caddo Indians. Conflicts soon developed between French traders and Spaniards in Texas as they competed for land along the Red. Years later, the Red River featured again as part of the settlement in the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty, negotiated by Spanish minister Luis de Onís y Gonzales and U.S. secretary of state John Quincy Adams, which finally brought to an end the western boundary disputes between Spain and the United States lingering since the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. In 1852 Randolph Marcy discovered the source of the Red River—a mountain rivulet cutting a deep canyon through the Staked Plains. Marcy’s testimony in the Greer County border dispute between Oklahoma and Texas was key to the U.S. Supreme Court decision favoring Oklahoma. In the decades between 1930 and 1970, dams were built along the Red by the U.S. Corps of Engineers to control floods, generate electricity, and create lakes for recreation along the Oklahoma-Texas border.

Book Spanish Documents concerning English Voyages to the Caribbean 1527 1568

Download or read book Spanish Documents concerning English Voyages to the Caribbean 1527 1568 written by Irene A. Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English translation. For further documents, see Second Series 71, 99 and 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1929. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the "Portion of a map by Diego Homem showing Central America and the West Indies, 1568" which appeared in the first edition of the work.