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Tag Archives: Spain
Of British invasions and medieval haunts
As a followup to Hitler’s Armada, I read Frank McLynn’s Invasion from the Armada to Hitler, a history of planned attempts to invade the British isles, and has an interesting mixture of deep background and absurd simplification. McLynn begins by … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged England, English Literature, France, history, horror, naval, Spain
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Davita’s Harp
Davita’s Harp© 1985 Chaim Potok384 pages Are you a Jew? Ilana Davita Chandel gets that question a lot. It’s lobbed at her from Irish and Italian street toughs, and from inquisitive neighbors who see her swimming on the Sabbath. Is … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged 1930s, Chaim Potok, Judaism, Marxism, Spain
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Fire and Blood
Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico © 1973 T.R. Fehrenbach 675 pages Fire and Blood is an epic history of Mexico, one that begins at the dawn of time and takes its time moving on. Case in point: the 20th … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 2018 Peoples of the Americas, Central America, Hispanic, history, Mexico, Peoples of the Americas series, Spain
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The Age of Napoleon
The Age of Napoleon© 1975 will Durant870 pages Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me – or didn’t. Will and Ariel Durant intended for Rousseau and Revolution to be the final volume in their epic … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, France, French Revolution, Germany, military, music, Russia, Spain, Story of Civilization, Will Durant
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Cities of Gold
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado© 1992 Douglas Preston (Walter Nelson, Photographs)480 pages Sometimes, history has got to be pursued from the back of a horse. Douglas Preston wasn’t sure what took him … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, American Southwest, American West, Arizona, Douglas Preston, ecology, Native America, New Mexico, Spain, stewardship, travel
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Rousseau and Revolution
Rousseau and Revolution© 1957 Will and Ariel Durant1092 pages “…little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Austria, Britain, Classics and Literary, France, French Revolution, Germany, history, literature, music, Russia, Spain, Story of Civilization
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The Mexican Frontier
The Mexican Frontier 1821 – 1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico© 1982 David Weber (University of New Mexico Press)440 pages In 1821, the people of Mexico declared their independence from Spain, recognizing that its Napoleonic straits meant that the mother … Continue reading
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Tagged American Frontier, American Southwest, American West, California, history, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, Texas
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Spain in the Southwest
Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History© 2013 John Kessell480 In the early 1500s, the Spanish triumphed over the Aztecs and established a new Spain — an empire forged out of the new world. The equatorial tropics were only the … Continue reading
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Tagged American Southwest, American West, Colonial America, Native America, New Mexico, Spain
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The Armada
The Armada© 1959 Garrett Mattingly443 pages In the late summer of 1588, all of Europe held its breath as an enormous Spanish fleet, consisting of a hundred and fifty vessels of varying sizes, set sail for the English channel. Their … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, history, military, naval, Spain, Tudor England
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Sister Queens
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castille480 pages© 2011 Julia Fox Virtually any reader of Tudor fiction is familiar with the sad story of Queen Catherine, the lawful wife of Henry VIII … Continue reading