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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author: Viriathus
Author: Luis SilvaPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473826896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the middle years of the second century BC, Rome was engaged in the conquest and pacification of what is now Spain and Portugal. They met with determined resistance from several tribes but nobody defied them with more determination and skill than Viriathus. Apparently of humble birth, he emerged as a leader after the treacherous massacre of the existing tribal chieftains and soon proved himself a gifted and audacious commander. Relying on hit and run guerrilla tactics, he inflicted repeated humiliating reverses upon the theoretically superior Roman forces, uniting a number of tribes in resistance to the invader and stalling their efforts at conquest and pacification for eight years. Still unbeaten in the field, he was only overcome when the Romans resorted to bribing some of his own men to assassinate him (though they reneged on the agreed payment, claiming they did not reward traitors!). Though renowned in his day Viriathus has been neglected by modern historians, a travesty that Luis Silva puts right in this thoroughly researched and accessible account. Portuguese by birth, the author draws on Portuguese research and perspectives that will be refreshing to English-language scholars and his own military experience also informs his analysis of events. What emerges is a stirring account of defiance, heroic resistance against the odds and, ultimately, treachery and tragedy.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Philip II
Author: Geoffrey ParkerPublisher: Open Court Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This biography of Philip II of Spain uses his personal papers to paint an intimate portrait of the individual who played an important part in shaping the modern world. The book describes Philip's inability to trust anyone, his obsessions with religion and magic, his family relations and more.
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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El Quetzal
Author: Success Is Never Final
Author: Geoffrey ParkerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Failure fascinates historians, especially when it follows fast on the heels of victory. In ten provocative essays, Geoffrey Parker chronicles notable moments in fifteenth-, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe when defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory. He paints a broad picture of empire, war, and religion in the early modern world.Parker groups his material into three sections. In the first, he examines the rise and fall of the first global empire, the Spanish Empire. In the second, he shows how the spread of the Western military innovation triggered resistance stronger than it could overcome. Finally, he tells of the failure of the Reformation to grow beyond its original, urban milieu.Success Is Never Final offers a rich and original view of the fluctuations of power in early modern Europe, and bold new thinking from one of our master historians.
Fuentes de la Historia Española E Hispanoamericana
Author: Benito Sánchez AlonsoPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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