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The wrath of God : Lope de Aguirre, revolutionary of the Americas / Evan L. Balkan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balkan, Evan, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aguirre, Lope de, 1510-1561.
- Aguirre, Lope de.
- Insurgency--South America--History--16th century.
- Insurgency.
- Explorers.
- History.
- Discoveries in geography.
- South America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.
- South America.
- South America--History--16th century.
- Explorers--Spain--Biography.
- Spain.
- Explorers--South America--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 225 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- If Aguirre (d. 1561) were indeed nothing but the pure manifestation of evil that almost all sources portray him, wondered Balkan, why did over 100 men follow him as he transformed a conventional search for El Dorado in the South American jungle, into a year-long revolt against the Spanish Empire--as represented by Peru--in the middle of some of the harshest country in the world. A Baltimore-based writer in the humanities, he synthesizes disparate sources in order to fill out a whole person in all his complexities rather than a simple megalomaniac. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826350435
- 0826350437
- 9780826350459
- 0826350453
- OCLC:
- 692667031
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