C Harvey Gardiner: 2 books

In this account of the naval aspect of Hernando Corts's invasion of the Aztec Empire, C. Harvey Gardiner has added another dimension to the drama of Spanish conquest of the New World and to Corts himself as a military strategist. The use of ships, in the climactic moment of the Spanish-Aztec clash, which...

This biography of a distinguished historian and man of letters is the first study of William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) to be written by a historian who has worked with the very themes explored by Prescott. And it is the first to treat him not only as creative historian but also as family man, as...