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In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach--across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change--a time when Spain learned to rule the world.
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At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next 300 years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died; few triumphed. Some were cruel; some were curious; some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching.
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A Narration That is Difficult to Follow
- De Amazon Customer en 05-24-19
De: Robert Goodwin
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A Concise History of Spain
- De: William Phillips Jr., Carla Rahn Phillips
- Narrado por: Luis Soto
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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This audiobook traces Spain's development from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities. It introduces listeners to key themes that have shaped Spain's history and culture, including its varied landscapes and climates; the impact of waves of diverse human migrations; the importance of its location as a bridge between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and Europe and Africa; and religion, particularly militant Catholic Christianity and its centuries of conflict with Islam and Protestantism.
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Underwhelmed
- De Anonymous User en 02-20-20
De: William Phillips Jr., y otros
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The Foundations of Western Civilization
- De: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Thomas F. X. Noble
- Duración: 24 h y 51 m
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What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.
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Not Engaging or Very Interesting
- De Tommy D'Angelo en 03-05-17
De: Thomas F. X. Noble, y otros
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Conquistadors and Aztecs
- A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan
- De: Stefan Rinke, Christopher Reid
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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Written by a leading historian of Latin America, Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries.
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Gold and Death
- De Rebecca Hill en 09-13-23
De: Stefan Rinke, y otros
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El Norte
- The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
- De: Carrie Gibson
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
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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 by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today.
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Chicken Noodle History
- De Jose en 10-30-19
De: Carrie Gibson
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Ghosts of Spain
- Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
- De: Giles Tremlett
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
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The appearance, more than 60 years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting" - the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe's most voluble people have kept silent so long.
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Smug Sensibilities
- De After Hours en 03-25-22
De: Giles Tremlett
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- De: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrado por: Luis Soto
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers who took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares.
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A fresh mature perspective on the Spanish conquest
- De Chencheno111 en 03-19-22
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The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
- Muslims, Christians, and Jews Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
- De: Dario Fernandez Morera
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: It is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity", Fernández-Morera sets the record straight.
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I should have known better all along.
- De David en 07-31-16
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España
- A Brief History of Spain
- De: Giles Tremlett
- Narrado por: Luis Soto
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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Spain's position on Europe's southwestern corner has exposed it to cultural, political and actual winds blowing from all quadrants. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south. The Mediterranean connects it to the civilisational currents of Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians and Byzantines as well as the Arabic lands of the Near East. Hordes from the Russian steppes were amongst the first to arrive. They would be followed by Visigoths, Arabs, Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and immigrants.
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Junk
- De Don T. en 01-27-23
De: Giles Tremlett
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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
- The Middle Ages Series
- De: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
- Narrado por: Tim Lundeen
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular wars against Islam the same crusading benefits offered to those going to the Holy Land.
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Spanish?
- De BRYAN ROZMAN en 11-19-15
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The Ornament of the World
- How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
- De: Maria Rosa Menocal, Harold Bloom - foreword
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, this history brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where, for more than seven centuries, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and literature, science, and the arts flourished.
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Excellent Book
- De Zahid Ahmad en 08-14-18
De: Maria Rosa Menocal, y otros
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Iberia
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 37 h y 41 m
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Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history.
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Michener's Masterpiece
- De ahusmc en 09-14-17
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History of Spain: A Captivating Guide to Spanish History, Starting from Roman Hispania Through the Visigoths, the Spanish Empire, the Bourbons, and the War of Spanish Independence to the Present
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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Throughout the centuries, Spain has been subject to the lordship of other countries. It was occupied by the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Visigoths, the French, and the Muslims. It has been the playground of both the respectful and the ruthless. The Spanish coasts have been occupied by the trading empires of Carthage and Rome. All that time, Spain was told by others how to run their country, how to fight, whom to fight, and where to fight.
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bit of a struggle
- De kristy a. palmer en 01-31-22
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Francis I
- The Maker of Modern France
- De: Leonie Frieda
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Francis was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personality molded his kingdom into the first European superpower. Arguably the man who introduced the Renaissance to France, Francis was also the prototype Frenchman - a national identity was modeled on his character.
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Rekindling salamandrine fires...
- De Adeliese Baumann en 09-29-18
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Fire and Blood
- A History of Mexico
- De: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 35 h y 36 m
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T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization by the first millennium BC; the successive reigns of Olmec, Maya, Toltec, and Mexic masters, who ruled through an admirably efficient bureaucracy and the power of the priests, propitiating the capricious gods with human sacrifices; the Spanish conquistadors, and much more.
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Good book bad narration
- De M. A. Chris Raine en 03-23-19
De: T. R. Fehrenbach
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Kingdoms of Faith
- A New History of Islamic Spain
- De: Brian A. Catlos
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic Spain from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendor of al-Andalus, while offering an authoritative new interpretation of the forces that shaped it. Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain as a paradise of enlightened tolerance or the site where civilizations clashed. Catlos taps a wide array of primary sources to paint a more complex portrait, describing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world.
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well structured, easy to follow timeline
- De Debra en 12-28-23
De: Brian A. Catlos