Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Colu...
Thomas, Hugh / Stewart, James Cameron 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 shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. For Spain and for the world, the decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal--the dividing line between the medieval and the modern. Spain's colonial adventures began inauspiciously. In spi...