Subject: Spain -- Colonies (Keywords)

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus' arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early 19th century.

The magisterial and enigmatic figure of Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire. It begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around the world in 1522 and ends with Charle...

At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, in...

Mark Cocker focuses on examples of how European & Euro-Americans have subjugated and in some cases almost exterminated native peoples in many parts of the world during the last 400 years.

An epic narrative history of the New World and the people who discovered and conquered it, this book covers the rise of the Spanish Empire from 1490 to 1522.

In this work, Bartolomé de las Casas provides a fierce and moving account of the genocide practised by the Spanish colonialists.