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Cuba by Hugh Thomas
Category: History
From award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, "Cuba: A History" is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world. Hugh Thomas' acclaimed book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of ...Show more
Madrid : A Traveller's Reader by Hugh Thomas
Category: Travel | Series: Traveller's Reader
The charm of Madrid is elusive, but for those who know how to find it, Madrid has magic. Its magic can be found in the shadow cast over the present by the past. In this Traveller's Reader, a city that was once the seat of power for perhaps the most ambitious political enterprise the western world had se ...Show more
Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
Category: Australian History
The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas' "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 fifteent ...Show more
Rivers of Gold : The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
Category: History
In 1492 Columbus launchged what became the most important series of events in history. He believed that China could be reached from Europe by sailing west. A quarter century later, showed that to be true. Inspired by the hope of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish ad ...Show more
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
Category: History
Secondhand. The magisterial and enigmatic Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure in the second volume of Hugh Thomas' great history of the Spanish Empire. It begins with the return of the remnants of Magellan's expedition around the world in 1522 and ends with Charles' de ...Show more
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
Category: Australian History
Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas' "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 acros ...Show more
The Gospel of Thomas : Newly presented to bring out the meaning, with introductions, paraphrases and notes (4th edition 2006) by Thomas (tr Ross Hugh McGregor; calligraphy John Blamires)
Category: Other Stationery
Originally written in Greek and Coptic, the Gospel of Thomas -- hidden in the Egyptian sands for over 1,600 years -- is the most widely read of the Gnostic Gospels. It consists of 114 short and highly concentrated sayings, each a mini-parable with an outer form and deep inner meanings given in symbolic ...Show more
The Spanish Civil War (revised edition) by Hugh Thomas
Category: History
A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated a ...Show more