Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
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.
"Almost every aspect of the colonial enterprise is ably covered.. as an intelligent and incisive narrative the book would be hard to better... It is unusual to finish so long a book wishing for more." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "A splendid volume, bold and strong in its outlines, rich in fascinating details, punctuated by well-chosen quotations from contemporaries and eyewitnesses, and accompanied by many maps and excellent illustrations. It is an ambitious project, magnificently carried out, and his publishers have done him proud." -- PAUL JOHNSON LITERARY REVIEW "As a historian, Thomas is master of the big picture and the diorama... Rivers of Gold sweeps us restlessly on, powered not, as such a book might otherwise be, by compassion and anger in the face of conquest and exploitation, but by the writer's infinite wonder at the courage, audacity and resilience of Renaissance Spain to which this is the most handsomest of tributes." -- Jonathan Keates Spectator "An epic history of an extraordinary age." THE SCOTSMAN "Thomas brings alive the spirit of the era through descriptions of explorers expectations and delivers the tragedy of Europe's effect on its conquered lands." GOOD BOOK GUIDE "There is considerable Jewish interest in historian Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold. It contains much about the machinations behind the 1492 expulsion and notes that Jewish conversos continued in powerful positions in Spain." JEWISH CHRONICLE
Hugh Thomas has won the Somerset Maugham Prize and the National Book Award for History. He was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and received a peerage in 1981. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297645634 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297645633 |
| Title | Rivers of Gold |
| Author | Hugh Thomas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2003-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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