World Without End, Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire
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Following "Rivers of Gold" and "The Golden Empire "and" "building on five centuries of scholarship, "World Without End "is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times ("The New York Times Book Review"). The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the dramatic human story of the extraordinary projection of Spanish might in the second half of the sixteenth century has never been fully told until now. In "World Without End, " Hugh Thomas chronicles the lives, loves, conflicts, and conquests of the complex men and women who carved up the Americas for the glory of Spain. Chief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called the arbiter of the world. Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father, Emperor Charles V, but nevertheless felt himself unworthy to wield it. His forty-two-year reign changed the face of the globe forever. Alongside Philip we find the entitled descendants of New Spain s original explorers men who, like their king, came into possession of land they never conquered and wielded supremacy they never sought. Here too are the Roman Catholic religious leaders of the Americas, whose internecine struggles created possibilities that the emerging Jesuit order was well-positioned to fill. With the sublime stories of arms and armadas, kings and conquistadors come tales of the ridiculous: the opulent parties of New Spain s wealthy hedonists and the unexpected movement to encourage Philip II to conquer China. Finally, Hugh Thomas unearths the first indictments of imperial Spain s labor rights abuses in the Americas and the early attempts by its more enlightened rulers and planters to address them. Written in the brisk, flowing narrative style that has come to define Hugh Thomas s work, the final volume of this acclaimed trilogy stands alone as a history of an empire making the transition from conquest to inheritance a history that Thomas reveals through the fascinating lives of the people who made it. Praise for "World Without End" A sweeping, encyclopedic history of the arrogance, ambition, and ideology that fueled the quest for empire. " Kirkus Reviews" "" Literary power is a vital part of a great historian s armoury. As in his earlier books, Thomas demonstrates here that he has this in abundance. " Financial Times" "" A vivid climax to Hugh Thomas s three-volume history of imperial Spain. " The Telegraph" Thomas clearly excels in the Spanish history of religion, politics, and culture, and] successfully shows that Spain s global ambition knew no bounds. "Publishers Weekly" Praise for Hugh Thomas The great historian of the Spanish-speaking world. "The Guardian" "" "The Golden Empire" Compelling . . . Thomas is acknowledged as one of the masters of grand narrative, and in this latest work he once again lights up a vivid tableau. " The Wall Street Journal""Rivers of Gold" Magisterial . . . a grand and sweeping account of the world s transformation half a millennium ago. " The New York Times Book Review"".

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Following "Rivers of Gold" and "The Golden Empire "and" "building on five centuries of scholarship, "World Without End "is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times ("The New York Times Book Review"). The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the dramatic human story of the extraordinary projection of Spanish might in the second half of the sixteenth century has never been fully told until now. In "World Without End, " Hugh Thomas chronicles the lives, loves, conflicts, and conquests of the complex men and women who carved up the Americas for the glory of Spain. Chief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called the arbiter of the world. Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father, Emperor Charles V, but nevertheless felt himself unworthy to wield it. His forty-two-year reign changed the face of the globe forever. Alongside Philip we find the entitled descendants of New Spain s original explorers men who, like their king, came into possession of land they never conquered and wielded supremacy they never sought. Here too are the Roman Catholic religious leaders of the Americas, whose internecine struggles created possibilities that the emerging Jesuit order was well-positioned to fill. With the sublime stories of arms and armadas, kings and conquistadors come tales of the ridiculous: the opulent parties of New Spain s wealthy hedonists and the unexpected movement to encourage Philip II to conquer China. Finally, Hugh Thomas unearths the first indictments of imperial Spain s labor rights abuses in the Americas and the early attempts by its more enlightened rulers and planters to address them. Written in the brisk, flowing narrative style that has come to define Hugh Thomas s work, the final volume of this acclaimed trilogy stands alone as a history of an empire making the transition from conquest to inheritance a history that Thomas reveals through the fascinating lives of the people who made it. Praise for "World Without End" A sweeping, encyclopedic history of the arrogance, ambition, and ideology that fueled the quest for empire. " Kirkus Reviews" "" Literary power is a vital part of a great historian s armoury. As in his earlier books, Thomas demonstrates here that he has this in abundance. " Financial Times" "" A vivid climax to Hugh Thomas s three-volume history of imperial Spain. " The Telegraph" Thomas clearly excels in the Spanish history of religion, politics, and culture, and] successfully shows that Spain s global ambition knew no bounds. "Publishers Weekly" Praise for Hugh Thomas The great historian of the Spanish-speaking world. "The Guardian" "" "The Golden Empire" Compelling . . . Thomas is acknowledged as one of the masters of grand narrative, and in this latest work he once again lights up a vivid tableau. " The Wall Street Journal""Rivers of Gold" Magisterial . . . a grand and sweeping account of the world s transformation half a millennium ago. " The New York Times Book Review"".

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Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary proj... Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authority World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines. More significantly, it describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world had seen since Rome - as well as conquistadores, the book is people with viceroys, judges, nobles, bishops, inquisitors and administrators of many different kinds, often in conflict with one another, seeking to organise the native populations into towns, to build cathedrals, hospitals and universities. Behind them - sometimes ahead of them - came the religious orders, the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and finally the Jesuits, builders of convents and monasteries, many of them of astonishing beauty, and reminders of the pervasiveness of religion and the self-confidence of the age. Towering above them all, though moving rarely from the palace of the Escorial outside Madrid, is the figure of King Philip II, the central figure in the book. The Venetian ambassador thought him 'the arbiter of the world'. Once the Philippines had been consolidated, Philip's advisors contemplated an invasion of China: the Jesuit Father Sanchez called it 'the greatest enterprise which has ever been proposed to any monarch in the world'. It was an enterprise never undertaken, but never explicitly abandoned. Was it a great or a terrible empire? In contrast to other empire builders, the Spaniards entered upon arguments with each other about their right to rule other peoples, and their ruthlessness was often tempered by humanity. Hugh Thomas's conclusion is unequivocal: 'The speed with which the sixteenth-century conquistadores conquered such large territories on two vast continents, and the comparable success of missionaries with large populations of Indians, stands as one of the supreme epics of both valour and imagination by Europeans.' 'One of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times' New York Times 'The greatest historian of the Spanish speaking world' Guardian (Year Ahead in Books 2014) HUGH THOMAS received the Calvo Serer, Boccacio, and Nonino prizes in Italy in 2009, and in 2008 was made a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France. His many books include his classic history of The Spanish Civil War (winner, the Somerset Maugham Award); The Suez Affair; Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom; An Unfinished History of the World; The Slave Trade; and the two previous volumes in this trilogy, Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age.Soort: Met illustraties;Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 32x235x159 mm;Gewicht: 567,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: augustus 2015;Druk: 1;ISBN10: 0812998111;ISBN13: 9780812998115; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2015.

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