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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm.
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English
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The nineteenth century was an exciting time in the United States. The country expanded as new land was added to the country, and exploration and settlement of these places became driving forces. Join these intrepid people as canals and railroads were built and new trails and travel routes opened up the vast new country.
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367 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define "Spain" concretely, or say with any confidence who were Spaniards and who were not. Speaking of Spain offers...
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xviii, 463 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps, genealogical charts ; 25 cm
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English
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"World Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary projection of Spanish power across the Pacific to conquer the Philippines. It also describes how the Spanish ran the greatest empire the world...
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xvi, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots -- ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...
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