Hugh Thomas

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870

by Hugh Thomas

After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes...

Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

by Hugh Thomas

THE UNPARALLELED HISTORY OF THE FALL OF OLD MEXICO

Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one...

The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America

by Hugh Thomas

From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative...