The Firebrand of the Indies
Author : Elsie Kathleen Seth-Smith
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Page : 149 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Elsie Kathleen Seth-Smith
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Page : 149 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Elsie K. Seth-Smith
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
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ISBN : 9781355221746
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Author : Elsie K. Seth-Smith
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Christian saints
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Author : E. K. Seth-Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2018-07-29
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ISBN : 9780267104864
Excerpt from The Firebrand of the Indies: A Romance of Francis Xavier NE chilly autumn evening, early in the sixteenth century, a weary, mud-stained traveller was limp ing along the Rue Saint Jacques, the principal street of the University Quarter of Paris, leading a heavily laden donkey. In spite of his shabby cloak and worn boots, and the fact that his steeple-crowned hat, battered by wind and weather, lacked the fashionable plume; in spite of his lameness and his forty years, his was no common appearance. The dark, worn face, high forehead and keen eyes gave him an air of distinction, and the carriage of his head and shoulders was both aristocratic and military. As he led his tired donkey over the cobbles, he looked with grave interest from side to side at the great blocks of college buildings about him, with their bewildering mass of gabled and turreted roofs, amongst which a church spire shot up here and there and once or twice he stopped for a brief glance through one of the arched gateways into a wide quadrangle, and listened to the droning voices from the lecture rooms beyond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Elsie K Seth-Smith
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
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ISBN : 9781015241411
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Author : Frederick Albion Ober
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1900
Category : West Indies
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Author : Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0822389061
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune with long experience in the Americas, the book is a training manual for conquistadors. The Aztec and Inca Empires had long since fallen by 1599, but Vargas Machuca argued that many more Native American peoples remained to be conquered and converted to Roman Catholicism. What makes his often shrill and self-righteous treatise surprising is his consistent praise of indigenous resistance techniques and medicinal practices. Containing advice on curing rattlesnake bites with amethysts and making saltpeter for gunpowder from concentrated human urine, The Indian Militia is a manual in four parts, the first of which outlines the ideal qualities of the militia commander. Addressing the organization and outfitting of conquest expeditions, Book Two includes extended discussions of arms and medicine. Book Three covers the proper behavior of soldiers, providing advice on marching through peaceful and bellicose territories, crossing rivers, bivouacking in foul weather, and carrying out night raids and ambushes. Book Four deals with peacemaking, town-founding, and the proper treatment of conquered peoples. Appended to these four sections is a brief geographical description of all of Spanish America, with special emphasis on the indigenous peoples of New Granada (roughly modern-day Colombia), followed by a short guide to the southern coasts and heavens. This first English-language edition of The Indian Militia includes an extensive introduction, a posthumous report on Vargas Machuca’s military service, and a selection from his unpublished attack on the writings of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas.
Author : Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816531846
The first of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the eve of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. By comparing and contrasting Spanish documents with Hopi oral traditions, the editors portray a balanced presentation of their shared past. Translations of sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century documents written by Spanish explorers, colonial officials, and Franciscan missionaries tell the perspectives of the European visitors, and oral traditions recounted by Hopi elders reveal the Indigenous experience. The editors argue that the Spanish record is incomplete, and only the Hopi perspective can balance the story. The Spanish documentary record (and by extension the documentary record of any European or Euro-American colonial power) is biased and distorted, according to the editors, who assert there are enormous silences about Hopi responses to Spanish missionization and colonization. The only hope of correcting those weaknesses is to record and analyze Hopi oral traditions, which have been passed down from generation to generation, and give voice to Hopi values and Hopi social memories of what was a traumatic period in their past. Spanish abuses during missionization—which the editors address specifically and directly as the sexual exploitation of Hopi women, suppression of Hopi ceremonies, and forced labor of Hopis—drove Hopis to the breaking point, inspiring a Hopi revitalization that led them to participate in the Pueblo Revolt. Those abuses, the revolt, and the resistance that followed remain as open wounds in Hopi society today.
Author : Flora Annie Steel, Elsie Kathleen Seth-Smith, Petya Lehmann
Publisher : Auroralit Edition
Page : pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
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Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783942676007
The lives of two great men of the time are here presented, in two separate novels, by two authors. The first one is Zahir-ud-din Mahomed, commonly called Babar or Babur, Emperor of India, the first of the dynasty of the Great Moghuls. He was a poet, painter, soldier, athlete, gentleman, musician, beggar and King. He lived the most adventurous life a man ever lived, in the end of the fifteenth, the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; and he kept a record of it. Babar brought with him into India his own religion, the Islam. He was very powerful and profoundly soulful. The Crystal Bowl of Life is the promise of the Fullness of Life, of love, joy, and happiness, and of sorrow and death … The second great man of this book is St. Francis Xavier, who was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, commonly called Jesuits. He was known as the ‘Apostle of the Indies’ as he was ordered by the King of Portugal, Joam III, to restore Christianity among the Portuguese settlers there. He achieved much more than that … Two civilisations introduce themselves almost at the same time into India. It is exciting to discover in what fashion and to what purpose …
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 1781
Category : Books
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Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."