books about: conquistador

books about: conquistador

books:

Conquistador

Mexican Americans, American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos (American Century Series)

Matt Meier, Feliciano Ribera

Hill and Wang, 1994

A text book that doesn't read like stereo instructions.
While taking an Anthropology class covering Mexican Americans we were asked to purchase this book along with another text book. I found Mexican Americans/American Mexicans to be a good book, with lots of useful and interesting information without being dry (like most ...

Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West

Deanne Stillman

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

Finally, the truth about the history and saga of the wild horse
In writing "Mustang," Deanne Stillman has given us an amazing new view of American history--the one that was made by wild horses. I have waited for years to read a book like this, one that tells the true story about America's wild horses--from their origins to their ...

Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Stanford University Press, 2006

This book argues that the striking resemblances in Spanish and Puritan discourses of colonization as ?exorcism? and as spiritual gardening point to a common Atlantic history. These resemblances suggest that we are better off if we simply consider the Puritan colonization of New England as a continuation of Iberian models rather than a radically ...

American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and ...

Richard Grant

Grove Press, 2005

I Enjoyed This Book
I picked this book up at a Waterstone's in Sheffield, under its U.K. title of Ghost Riders, and it brought me back to my hitch-hiking days in America. Grant, a Brit., gets "travel fever" and lights out on the same open road that Whitman, Twain, Jack London, Steinbeck, ...

Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History

S.M. Stirling

Roc, 2004

Nostalgia for What Has Never Been
I enjoyed Conquistador completely. It takes an idle daydream and uses it to build a word-timeline. The daydream is, "What if I could have seen this place before all the buildings, pavement, cars and people. Knowing what we know now, could we leapfrog mistakes and do ...

Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

Buddy Levy

Bantam, 2008

Great Read
A brilliant synthesis. I thought i knew this subject well but Mr. Levy heightened my experience of it. Wonderfully nuanced descriptions and the characters come to life. Very well done and hard to put down.

Conquistadors of the Useless

Lionel Terray

Mountaineers Books, 2008

A true masterpiece of clasic climbing.
Lionel Terray was one of the great clasic climbers and this book captures the spirit of those days. The accounts of the climbs are very richly told, they are not technical descriptions but beautiful stories told by a man who devoted his existence to the mountains. ...

Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

Hugh Thomas

Simon & Schuster, 1995

Richly detailed, stranger than fiction history, vividly told
Thomas has always been one of our best contemporary history writers (The Slave Trade, Rivers of Gold.) What he achieves in this book is to place the reader literally at Cortes's side from the moment his expedition begins until its final denouement. There appears to ...

Tin God (Flyover Fiction)
Terese Svoboda

University of Nebraska Press, 2006

Celebrated by the New York Times Book Review for its ?genuine grace and beauty,? Terese Svoboda?s work has been called ?desperate, chilling, seductive? ( Vogue ) and ?haunting and profound? (A. M. Homes), while Vanity Fair warned that it ?detonates on contact.? In Tin God , her writing can only be called . . . divine. ?This is God,? the novel ...

The Last Days of the Incas

Kim MacQuarrie

Simon & Schuster, 2007

Last Days of The Incas
Last Days of the Incas is a splendid book, a complex story well told. Readable and compelling. What I particularly enjoyed: bookending the narrative of fall of the Inca empire with the 20th century hunt for Machu Picchu, Vilcabama, and other Inca sites; inspired ...

El Conquistador

Federico Andahazi

Planeta, 2006

Wonderful!
Imagine what would had happened if history would have been different? Suppose the Aztecs discovered the old world before the Spanish conquered them? In the Federico Andazhi's fantasy world we meet Quetza, who is saved by an old member of the elder council, Tepec. ...

The Hummingbird and the Hawk: Conquest and Sovereignty in the Valley of Mexico 1503-1541 (Torchbooks TB1898)

R. C. Padden

Harpercollins College Div, 1970

Not Popular in Mexico
This book is not going to be popular in Mexico. Padden unflinchingly documents the excesses of the Aztec State with regards to human sacrifice and cannibalism. He makes the case that the Aztec Pipiltin (the ruling elite) used human sacrifice to intimidate not only ...

Maya Conquistador
Matthew Restall

Beacon Press, 1999

The real story of the Mayan encounter with the Spanish, based on newly revealed eyewitness accounts Our familiar images of Mexico's conquest are powerful and enduring: bold and bloodthirsty Spanish conquistadors; nobly savage Aztecs lamenting their broken bones and spears; the battles of Cortés and Montezuma; enormous pyramids and exquisite ...

The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies, ...

Marc Simmons

University of Oklahoma Press, 1993

History with the Verve of a Novel
Marc Simmons does an excellent job of telling a story. I have endured novels that were much less engaging and well told. Simmons brings immediacy and life to events that occurred four hundred years ago. I wish he had written the history texts I was compelled to read in ...

Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica

University of Oklahoma Press, 2007

The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. This book takes into account the role of native peoples as active agents in the Conquest through a review of new sources and more careful analysis of known but under-studied materials that demonstrate ...