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Author : Sauer
Release : 2008-10-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Early Spanish Main by : Sauer
Download or read book The Early Spanish Main written by Sauer. This book was released on 2008-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.
Author : Carl Ortwin Sauer
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Download or read book The Early Spanish Main written by Carl Ortwin Sauer. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Ortwin Sauer While
Release : 1966
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Download or read book The Early Spanish Main written by Carl Ortwin Sauer While. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Christopher Fine
Release : 2006-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Treasures of the Spanish Main by : John Christopher Fine
Download or read book Treasures of the Spanish Main written by John Christopher Fine. This book was released on 2006-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure," Fine writes. In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain dominated the oceans with its fleet of galleons. Coming to the New World, these ships filled their holds with gold and silver and treasures beyond imagining. The seaway between Spain and the New World was dubbed The Golden Highway. On their journeys back across the seas, many were wrecked on reefs or destroyed by hurricanes. The watery depths now hold their treasures. Today, treasure divers seek their fortunes by attempting--sometimes successfully, sometimes fatally--to retrieve these hordes of riches. In Treasures of the Spanish Main, readers relive each voyage of long ago as well as witness the modern wreck diver's efforts to extract their secrets. Included are: The 1622 fleet * The Concepcion * The Maravillas * The Shipwreck off Jupiter Beach * The San Jose * the 1715 Fleet * and the 1733 Fleet The voyages of centuries ago come alive with Fine's excellent historical detail. Readers will experience the wild storms and the results of unfortunate choices made by long-ago sailors. The eccentric treasure hunters of today, along with those of the past, create a mosaic of suspense and drama on the high seas. A must for everyone interested in pirates, treasure, sailing, history, or just plain fun.
Author : Linda A. Newson
Release : 2009-04-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines by : Linda A. Newson
Download or read book Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines written by Linda A. Newson. This book was released on 2009-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long assumed that Spanish colonial rule had only a limited demographic impact on the Philippines. Filipinos, they believed, had acquired immunity to Old World diseases prior to Spanish arrival; conquest was thought to have been more benign than what took place in the Americas because of more enlightened colonial policies introduced by Philip II. Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines illuminates the demographic history of the Spanish Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and, in the process, challenges these assumptions. In this provocative new work, Linda Newson convincingly demonstrates that the Filipino population suffered a significant decline in the early colonial period. Newson argues that the sparse population of the islands meant that Old World diseases could not become endemic in pre-Spanish times. She also shows that the initial conquest of the Philippines was far bloodier than has often been supposed and that subsequent Spanish demands for tribute, labor, and land brought socioeconomic transformations and depopulation that were prolonged beyond the early conquest years. Comparisons are made with the impact of Spanish colonial rule in the Americas. Newson adopts a regional approach and examines critically each major area in Luzon and the Visayas in turn. Building on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, she proposes a new estimate for the population of the Visayas and Luzon of 1.57 million in 1565—slightly higher than that suggested by previous studies—and calculates that by the mid-seventeenth century this figure may have fallen by about two-thirds. Based on extensive archival research conducted in secular and missionary archives in the Philippines, Spain, and elsewhere, Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines is an exemplary contribution to our understanding of the formative influences on demographic change in premodern Southeast Asian society and the history of the early Spanish Philippines.
