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‘What a bloody, brilliant canvas he paints’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent
Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteenth century convinced themselves that an earthly paradise existed in the Caribbean. This is the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on the precarious journey across the Atlantic – taking with them wheat, the horse, the guitar and the wheel as well as guns, malaria and slaves – to create an empire that made Spain the envy of the world. In this epic history Hugh Thomas brings Spain’s rise to empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age.
Author Biography
Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1962) which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Conquest- Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994), An Unfinished History of the World (1979) and The Slave Trade (1997). From 1966 to 1975 he was Professor of History at the University of Reading. He was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, and he became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.
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