Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire. Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas
ISBN 10: 0141034483 ISBN 13: 9780141034485
Published by Penguin Group, 2010
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Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire. Hugh Thomas
About the Author: Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1961), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, The Suez Affair (1967), Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971), An Unfinished History of the World (1979), Armed Truce (1986), Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994), The Slave Trade (1997) and the first two volumes of his Spanish Empire trilogy, Rivers of Gold (2003) and The Golden Age (2010). From 1966 to 1976 he was Professor of History at the University of Reading, and from 1979 to 1991 chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies in London. In 2008 he was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) and won the Gabarron Prize; he received the Calvo Serer Prize, the Boccaccio Prize and the Nonino Prize in Italy in 2009. He is a member of the Academia de Buenas Letras in Seville and a Caballero of the Maestranza of Ronda, and in 1981 became a life peer as Lord Thomas of Swynnerton.
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Title: Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish ...
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good