The Golden Empire
By Hugh Thomas
By Hugh Thomas
Category: European World History | Military History
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Aug 23, 2011 | ISBN 9781588369048
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Praise
Advance praise for The Golden Empire
“One of history’s greatest upheavals plays out as melodrama and picaresque in this rousing saga of the founding of Spain’s Latin American empire. . . . This story of the desperadoes who stole a hemisphere makes for gripping, old-fashioned narrative history, grand in scope and colorful in detail.”—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Hugh Thomas’s Rivers of Gold
“Magisterial . . . a grand and sweeping account of the world’s transformation half a millennium ago.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Big, bold, informative, and meticulously researched. It is the kind of ‘history in the grand manner’ for which Thomas . . . is famous.”—The Washington Post
“A larger-than-life mural, at once ruthless, expansive, and colorful.”—The Boston Globe
“Thomas is a master of the two staples of well-written histories: character and plot.”—The Miami Herald
“Majestic . . . thrilling prose.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
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