Hugh Thomas: 26 books
World Without End
Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire andbuilding on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from “one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times” (The New York Times...
The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures...
The Golden Empire
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought...
Rivers of Gold
The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition,...
El imperio español
De Colón a Magallanes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2018
El imperio español fue una de las más grandes creaciones políticas europeas. Concebido a principios del siglo xvi, perduró trescientos años en la América continental y casi otros setenta en el Caribe y Filipinas.
Hugh Thomas, con el estilo que le ha granjeado tantos lectores, emprende un estudio...
The Spanish Civil War
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
“Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review
A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains...
Cuba (edición revisada y ampliada)
La lucha por la libertad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Una obra clásica que ofrece al lector una visión apasionante de la historia, la política y la cultura de la isla del Caribe y que, en esta nueva edición, revisa la historia reciente de Cuba en una esclarecedora introducción que plantea la tesis del cambio y la posibilidad de que nos encontremos...
Madrid
A Traveller's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world...
Conquest
Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.
Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures...
by Hugh Thomas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Considerada una obra maestra que arroja luz sobre una de las guerras más confusas del siglo XX.
De una forma brillante y con detalles conmovedores, Hugh Thomas analiza este devastador conflicto en el que las esperanzas, los sueños y las creencias de este siglo estallaron en el campo de batalla....
Spirit of the Blue
Peter Ayerst: A Fighter Pilot's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Few RAF pilots flew operationally from the beginning to the end of the Second World War. Fewer still can claim to have taken part in the Battle of France, Battle of Britain, El Alamein, and the D-Day landings as well as bomber escort duties in the closing days of the war. Peter Ayerst is one such...
by Thomas Boston, Thomas Manton, Hugh Binning
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly digest of carefully selected Puritan writings, suitable for personal devotional use or for small group discussion. The focus of each article is typically more practical than theological. The originals have been sparingly edited, generally only to correct...
The Norman Conquest
England after William the Conqueror
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrought by William the Conqueror and his followers. From the perspective of a modern social historian, Hugh M. Thomas considers the conquest's wide-ranging...
by Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen, Elizabeth Catte
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike.
In Left Elsewhere, volume editor and lead essayist Elizabeth Catte turns a skeptical eye toward “purple” politicians, such as West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda, who...
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