by Hugh Thomas · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408049517
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«El Imperio Español: de Colón a Magallanes» is the historical essay by Hugh Thomas, published by Planeta in paperback (840 pages, in Spanish).
Hugh Thomas narrates the thirty years in which a handful of men turned Spain into the first modern empire: from the fall of Granada and the Catholic Monarchs' backing of Columbus to the first American colonization, the defeat of the Mexica and Magellan's expedition, with the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews as a backdrop.
First volume of the «Imperio español» series. Translation by Víctor Pozanco of the English original «Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan».
A work for readers of Spanish history interested in overseas expansion and the transition from the reign of the Catholic Monarchs to that of Charles I.
Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, was an English historian and writer known best for his book The Spanish Civil War.
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