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Правление Филиппа II – сына Карла V, государя, удерживавшего в своих руках значительную часть Европы и Нового Света… При нем продолжался Siglo de Oro – Золотой век Испанской империи, когда она оставалась флагманом всей католической Европы и обеих Америк. Окончательное покорение Чили, исследование рек Рио-де-ла-Платы, Параны, Ориноко. Основание Буэнос-Айреса и Асунсьона – будущих столиц новых колоний - Аргентины и Парагвая. Присоединение Португалии к Испании и переход заморских колоний Португалии под власть Мадрида. Завоевание Филиппинских островов и мечты о проникновении в Китай. Как жила первая из империй, над которой никогда не заходило…

Правление Филиппа II – сына Карла V, государя, удерживавшего в своих руках значительную часть Европы и Нового Света… При нем продолжался Siglo de Oro – Золотой век Испанской империи, когда она оставалась флагманом всей католической Европы и обеих Америк. Окончательное покорение Чили, исследование рек Рио-де-ла-Платы, Параны, Ориноко. Основание Буэнос-Айреса и Асунсьона – будущих столиц новых колоний - Аргентины и Парагвая. Присоединение Португалии к Испании и переход заморских колоний Португалии под власть Мадрида. Завоевание Филиппинских островов и мечты о проникновении в Китай. Как жила первая из империй, над которой никогда не заходило солнце?

Правление Карла V – могущественного государя, властвовавшего над значительной частью Европы и Нового Света… Именно при нем начался Siglo de Oro – Золотой век Испанской империи, когда она сделалась флагманом всей католической Европы и обеих Америк. Объединение богатейших земель в Западной, Южной и Центральной Европе и завоевание полуострова Юкатан, а также территорий современных Гватемалы, Колумбии и Венесуэлы, Перу и Чили… Величайшие культурные свершения – драматургия Лопе де Веги и Кальдерона, создание «Дон Кихота» Сервантесом, небывалый подъем испанской живописи, запечатленный в картинах Эль Греко, Веласкеса, Мурильо и Сурбарана. Как жила…

Правление Карла V - могущественного государя, властвовавшего над значительной частью Европы и Нового Света… Именно при нем начался Siglo de Oro - Золотой век Испанской империи, когда она сделалась флагманом всей католической Европы и обеих Америк. Объединение богатейших земель в Западной, Южной и Центральной Европе и завоевание полуострова Юкатан, а также территорий современных Гватемалы, Колумбии и Венесуэлы, Перу и Чили… Величайшие культурные свершения - драматургия Лопе де Веги и Кальдерона, создание "Дон Кихота" Сервантесом, небывалый подъем испанской живописи, запечатленный в картинах Эль Греко, Веласкеса, Мурильо и…

Объединение Кастилии и Арагона и создание Испанского королевства… Реконкиста и изгнание мавров с Иберийского полуострова… Открытие Нового Света и начало его завоевания… В XVI веке на обоих берегах Атлантики возникла огромная империя, над владениями которой никогда не заходило солнце. Два поколения первооткрывателей, колонизаторов, правителей и миссионеров проложили путь к расцвету католического государства. Бальбоа и Писарро, Кортес и Понсе Леон – это те люди, чья жажда золота, жестокость и религиозный фанатизм, но вместе с тем удачливость, бесстрашие и предприимчивость надолго обеспечили процветание Испании. Как это…

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.

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 tells the story of life in a conquered territory that stretched from Cuba to Peru, and of the final conquests of the greatest empire that the world had then seen since the fall of Rome 1,000 years before. By the time of Philip II's death - and after his startling decision, made in his final years, not to invade China - the attentions of the colonists, clergymen, sailors, soldiers and officials of the Spanish Empire were no longer turned to its expansion: their focus, instead, became its management. These were the decades in which modern history began.

Объединение Кастилии и Арагона и создание Испанского королевства… Реконкиста и изгнание мавров с Иберийского полуострова… Открытие Нового Света и начало его завоевания… В XVI веке на обоих берегах Атлантики возникла огромная империя, над владениями которой никогда не заходило солнце. Два поколения первооткрывателей, колонизаторов, правителей и миссионеров проложили путь рассвету католического государства. Бальбоа и Писарро, Кортес и Понсе Леон – это те люди, чья жажда золота, жестокость и религиозный фанатизм, но вместе с тем удачливость, бесстрашие и предприимчивость надолго обеспечили процветание Испании. Как это было? Каким образом произошел подъем Испанской империи? Читайте об этом в увлекательном исследовании британского историка Хью Томаса.

Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? Why did the British and US governments refuse to intervene? And why did the Republican cause collapse so violently? Now revised and updated, Hugh Thomas's classic account presents the most objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake - and which was as much an international war as a Spanish one.

Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas's The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire.

When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South America in the sixteenth century, they swept across the continent in a blaze of imperial expansion and brutal savagery.

Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellan's circumnavigation in 1522 and ending with Charles's death in 1558, Hugh Thomas's masterful work brilliantly brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods of the Renaissance, revealing how the Spaniards were able to conquer Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Chile; how the audacious conquistador Francisco de Orellana sailed down the Amazon, why Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to Mexico and what drove Hernando de Soto to pursue worldly riches in Florida, Mississippi and Georgia.

From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French and expanded the Spanish empire, and the bold conquistadors who were his agents. Thomas brings to life King Charles V—first as a gangly and easygoing youth, then as a liberal statesman who exceeded all his predecessors in his ambitions for conquest (while making sure to maintain the humanity of his new subjects in the Americas), and finally as a besieged Catholic leader obsessed with Protestant heresy and interested only in profiting from those he presided over.

The Golden Empire also presents the legendary men whom King Charles V sent on perilous and unprecedented expeditions: Hernán Cortés, who ruled the “New Spain” of Mexico as an absolute monarch—and whose rebuilding of its capital, Tenochtitlan, was Spain’s greatest achievement in the sixteenth century; Francisco Pizarro, who set out with fewer than two hundred men for Peru, infamously executed the last independent Inca ruler, Atahualpa, and was finally murdered amid intrigue; and Hernando de Soto, whose glittering journey to settle land between Rio de la Palmas in Mexico and the southernmost keys of Florida ended in disappointment and death. Hugh Thomas reveals as never before their torturous journeys through jungles, their brutal sea voyages amid appalling storms and pirate attacks, and how a cash-hungry Charles backed them with loans—and bribes—obtained from his German banking friends.

A sweeping, compulsively readable saga of kings and conquests, armies and armadas, dominance and power, The Golden Empire is a crowning achievement of the Spanish world’s foremost historian.

The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age.

Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteenth century convinced themselves that an Earthly Paradise existed in the Caribbean. This is the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on the precarious journey across the Atlantic - taking with them wheat, the horse, the guitar and the wheel as well as guns, malaria and slaves - to create an empire that made Spain the envy of the world.

From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind.

Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.

Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem.

The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims.
Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives.

Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.

В книге подробно освещены этапы Гражданской войны 1936-1939 гг. в Испании, завершившейся установлением фашистской диктатуры Франко. Автор на основе богатейшего документального материала дает всестороннюю объективную оценку событий сложной исторической эпохи, приводит интересные факты, малоизвестные современному читателю.

Книга Хью Томаса содержит интереснейший материал, совершенно переворачивающий наши представления о последних неделях войны и судьбах руководителей германского рейха. Основанная на сведениях, почерпнутых из недавно открытых архивов, книга предназначена широкому кругу читателей и отличается популярностью изложения.