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Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernán Cortés, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also follows parts of...
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English
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J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, "The work of lifetimes has been put at risk, reputations have been damaged,...
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Illustrated history of humankind volume 4
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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English
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"The result of extensive archival work and a bold interpretation of the historical record, New World, Inc. draws a portrait of life in London, on the Atlantic, and across the New World that offers a fresh analysis of the founding of American history. In the tradition of the best works of history that make us reconsider the past and better understand the present, Butman and Targett examine the enterprising spirit that inspired European settlement of...
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H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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Chronicles the odyssey of a group of European explorers who arrived in Florida in 1528, only four of whom survived the eight-year, five-thousand-mile journey through the North American wilderness to finally reach an outpost of the Spanish empire.
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America, other cities were here. They grew up, flourished and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities would later appear. You will find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers--and then crumbled into ruins.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
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Random House trade paperback edition.
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English
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Examines cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans, offering evidence of the presence of African explorers in the New World centuries before the arrival of Columbus.
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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"An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs--these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers."--From publisher description....
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Edaf
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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Debido a nuestro idioma inglés compartido, así como a las célebres historias de origen del Mayflower y la rebelión de las colonias británicas, Estados Unidos ha valorado su herencia anglosajona por encima de todas las demás. Sin embargo, como Carrie Gibson explica con gran profundidad y claridad en El Norte, la nación tiene raíces españolas mucho más antiguas, que durante mucho tiempo han sido ignoradas o marginadas. El pasado hispano de...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Hold on to your Viking helmets as you learn about the first known European to set foot on North America in this exciting addition to the Who Was? Series! Leif Erikson was born to be an explorer. His father, Erik the Red, had established the first European settlement in present-day Greenland, and although he didn't yet know it, Leif was destined to embark on an adventure of his own. The wise and striking Viking landed in the area known as Vinland...
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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Teofilo F. Ruiz gives a series of 12 lectures on the history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, who united the country, took power from the Moors, gave aid to Columbus, ordered the expulsion or conversion of Jews and Moors, and built the framework for modern Spain.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
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"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...
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