Spanish America: from the earliest period to the present time

By Julian Hawthorne

Book Overview

From the first Spanish sails to the last revolutionary campaigns, Spanish America traces how a hemisphere was claimed, governed, and transformed. Empires rise, and nations answer. Power, faith, and resistance shape everything. Julian Hawthorne brings narrative pace to a sweeping account of Spain and its colonies, following New World exploration history into the conquest of the Americas and the long mechanics of Spanish colonial rule. Without drowning the reader in jargon, he sketches the forces that shaped colonial era Latin America: the clash of cultures, the building of cities and trade, the spread of faith and law, and the pressures that eventually ignited Latin American independence. Hawthorne keeps the map in view, moving from ports to highlands, from viceroyalties to towns, and from imperial policy to daily life. It reads as a classic history collection staple, and also as a western hemisphere history overview for curious readers and classic-literature collectors. For students and researchers, it serves as a history reference guide to names, places, and turning points across Spanish-speaking America. Written in the era when grand syntheses of the past helped define modern historical reading, this unabridged classic edition remains a valuable Latin American history book for anyone seeking context behind the Americas we know today. It shows how history was first framed for English-language readers. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353708184
• ISBN13: 9789353708184
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"