e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Call NumberItem BarcodeBib NumberISBN/ISSN       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       Browse Catalog       by title:      The golden empire : ...       MARC Display

The golden empire : Spain, Charles V, and the creation of America / Hugh Thomas. New York : Random House, c2010. ISBN:  9781400061259 (hc.) 1400061253 (hc.) Description:  xviii, 646 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, geneal. tables ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Contents:  A tale of two cities : New Spain and old. Cortés and the rebuilding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1521-1524 ; Valladolid, 1522 ; Charles, king and emperor ; Christianity and the New World ; Charles at Valladolid, 1522-1523 ; Cortés in power, 1521-1524 -- Valladolid and Rome. Charles V : from Valladolid to the fall of Rome, 1527 ; Four brothers in a conquest : the Alvarados and Guatemala ; Charles and his empire ; Pedrarias, Panama, and Peru; Guzmán in New Spain ; Giants of their time : Charles, Cortés, Pizarro ; The Germans at the banquet : the Welsers ; Narváez and Cabeza de Vaca ; Ordaz on the Orinoco; Heredia at Cartagena ; Cortés and the Audiencia in New Spain ; Montejo in Yucatán ; To pass the sandbar -- Peru. Birú ; Pizarro's preparations ; Cajamarca ; The end of Atahualpa ; News of Peru ; The battle for Cuzco ; Almagro ; Pizarro's triumph and tragedy ; Vaca de Castro in Peru ; Gonzalo Pizarro and Orellana seek cinnamon and find the Amazon ; Orellana and New Andalusia ; The defeat of the viceroy ; Gonzalo and La Gasca ; Valdivia and Chile ; Valdivia's consummation -- Counter Reformation, counter Renaissance. Carolus Africanus ; The Indies finance Europe ; Federmann and Jiménez de Quesada ; The return of Cabeza de Vaca ; Soto in North America ; The magic lure of the New World ; Buenos Aires and Asunción : Pedro de Mendoza and Cabeza de Vaca ; New Spain with Antonio de Mendoza ; Coronado and the seven magic cities of Cibola ; Montejo and Alvarado in Yucatán and Guatemala -- The Indian soul. Las Casas, Pope Paul, and the Indian soul ; Controversy at Valladolid ; Las Casas and Sepúlveda ; The Knight of the Black Eagle ; The emperor at bay.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 980.01 T457g Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.