San Antonio College Library

"Historians have agreed that the Spanish conquest of the Indies was accomplished by men, horses, and dogs, in that order. The men have inspired hundreds of books; the horses, a few; the dogs, none until now. This book tells their story and that of their Spanish masters. It has been claimed that the reputed cruelty of the Conquest was the exaggeration of a zealous friar, Bartolomé de las Casas, and indeed hyperbole characterizes most early accounts...

The conquest of Mexico told by the Aztecs and their descendants.

Examines the various ways in which the development of Siberia has been inextricably linked with the historical evolution of the Russian Empire. Emphasis is placed on the political, social and economic development of Siberia from the Russian conquest through to the present day.

The fragile ecological balance of the world's largest tropical rain forest is discussed, and suggestions for heightening its economic viability, as well as its preservation, are offered.

By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest by civil war and conflicts with neighboring Christian kings. Mindful, however, of their traditional goal of recovering lands formerly ruled by the Visigoths,...

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing...