发表于2024-11-07
Rivers of Gold 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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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, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.
Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.
Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem.
The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims.
Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives.
Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.
《黄金之河》是纸间悦动策划推出的西班牙历史三部曲之一(其中的《无止境的世界》已由上海教育出版社出版,即将面世),本书的每个章节均关联着一个划时代的历史事件:格拉纳达陷落,西班牙统一,驱逐西班牙境内的犹太人,哥伦布发现新大陆,西班牙征服加勒比海主要岛屿,以达连为居民点,开始殖民南美大陆,多明我会反对虐待印第安人的早期抗争,巴托洛梅·德·拉斯·卡萨斯神父孜孜不倦地为原住民呼吁,黑奴贸易,查理五世当选神圣罗马帝国皇帝,迭戈·贝拉斯克斯·德·奎利亚尔征服古巴,埃尔南·科尔特斯征服墨西哥,以及麦哲伦环球航行等。
评分《黄金之河》是纸间悦动策划推出的西班牙历史三部曲之一(其中的《无止境的世界》已由上海教育出版社出版,即将面世),本书的每个章节均关联着一个划时代的历史事件:格拉纳达陷落,西班牙统一,驱逐西班牙境内的犹太人,哥伦布发现新大陆,西班牙征服加勒比海主要岛屿,以达连为居民点,开始殖民南美大陆,多明我会反对虐待印第安人的早期抗争,巴托洛梅·德·拉斯·卡萨斯神父孜孜不倦地为原住民呼吁,黑奴贸易,查理五世当选神圣罗马帝国皇帝,迭戈·贝拉斯克斯·德·奎利亚尔征服古巴,埃尔南·科尔特斯征服墨西哥,以及麦哲伦环球航行等。
评分《黄金之河》是纸间悦动策划推出的西班牙历史三部曲之一(其中的《无止境的世界》已由上海教育出版社出版,即将面世),本书的每个章节均关联着一个划时代的历史事件:格拉纳达陷落,西班牙统一,驱逐西班牙境内的犹太人,哥伦布发现新大陆,西班牙征服加勒比海主要岛屿,以达连为居民点,开始殖民南美大陆,多明我会反对虐待印第安人的早期抗争,巴托洛梅·德·拉斯·卡萨斯神父孜孜不倦地为原住民呼吁,黑奴贸易,查理五世当选神圣罗马帝国皇帝,迭戈·贝拉斯克斯·德·奎利亚尔征服古巴,埃尔南·科尔特斯征服墨西哥,以及麦哲伦环球航行等。
评分《黄金之河》是纸间悦动策划推出的西班牙历史三部曲之一(其中的《无止境的世界》已由上海教育出版社出版,即将面世),本书的每个章节均关联着一个划时代的历史事件:格拉纳达陷落,西班牙统一,驱逐西班牙境内的犹太人,哥伦布发现新大陆,西班牙征服加勒比海主要岛屿,以达连为居民点,开始殖民南美大陆,多明我会反对虐待印第安人的早期抗争,巴托洛梅·德·拉斯·卡萨斯神父孜孜不倦地为原住民呼吁,黑奴贸易,查理五世当选神圣罗马帝国皇帝,迭戈·贝拉斯克斯·德·奎利亚尔征服古巴,埃尔南·科尔特斯征服墨西哥,以及麦哲伦环球航行等。
评分《黄金之河》是纸间悦动策划推出的西班牙历史三部曲之一(其中的《无止境的世界》已由上海教育出版社出版,即将面世),本书的每个章节均关联着一个划时代的历史事件:格拉纳达陷落,西班牙统一,驱逐西班牙境内的犹太人,哥伦布发现新大陆,西班牙征服加勒比海主要岛屿,以达连为居民点,开始殖民南美大陆,多明我会反对虐待印第安人的早期抗争,巴托洛梅·德·拉斯·卡萨斯神父孜孜不倦地为原住民呼吁,黑奴贸易,查理五世当选神圣罗马帝国皇帝,迭戈·贝拉斯克斯·德·奎利亚尔征服古巴,埃尔南·科尔特斯征服墨西哥,以及麦哲伦环球航行等。
Rivers of Gold 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书