Kris Lane: 6 books

Book cover of Pillaging the Empire

Pillaging the Empire

Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

by Kris Lane, Kris E Lane, Robert M. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives...
Book cover of Potosi

Potosi

The Silver City That Changed the World

by Kris Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019

In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone...
Book cover of Latin America in Colonial Times
by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011

Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization – Latin America –...
Book cover of Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of the Gunpowder Empires
by Kris Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010

Book cover of Piracy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
by Kris Lane
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic...
Book cover of 2017 Top Ten Gay Romance
by J.M. Snyder, Kris T. Bethke, JL Merrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018

2017 Top Ten Gay Romance brings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books that year. From first love to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to keep you turning the pages as you fall in...
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