Cover of Rivers of Gold

Rivers of Gold

The Rise of the Spanish Empire

by Hugh Thomas

2003 604 pages eng

"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 …

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