Author : Richard Flint
Release : 2019-04-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 238/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Most Splendid Company by : Richard Flint
Download or read book A Most Splendid Company written by Richard Flint. This book was released on 2019-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint’s deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado expedition in 1540. Through their investigation into thousands of legal cases, financial records, proofs of service, letters, journals, and other primary materials, they provide social and cultural documentation on the backgrounds of hundreds of individuals who made up the Coronado expedition and show that the expedition was the first phase of a three-phase effort to complete the Columbian project: to delineate a westward route to Asia from Spain.