Lord Hugh Thomas' Latest

Re: 'Rivers of Gold': Conquerors and Missionaries

The above is a review of Lord Hugh Thomas' latest book, Rivers of Gold : The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan. The Spanish Civil War, by the same author, was perhaps the greatest work of history I have ever read. Here's a brief biography of the author from the review posted above:

"A book the size of 'Rivers of Gold' would be an astonishing work by any author, yet its publication simply affirms Hugh Thomas's record as one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times. Born in 1931, for many years a professor of history at the University of Reading and made Lord Thomas by no less than Margaret Thatcher in 1981, he first caught public attention with an enormous tome, 'The Spanish Civil War,' in 1961. Ten years later he released his vast study 'Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom.'' Then came his great 'Unfinished History of the World'(1979). In 1997 he published 'The Slave Trade.' But Thomas has also written about European unity and about the British radical John Strachey. Ten years ago he published another large work, 'Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico,' which is the closest in theme to the present volume."