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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
Book One: Spain at the Crossroads
1. “This city is a wife, whose husband is the hill”
2. “The only happy country”
3. “Great tranquility and order”
Book Two: Columbus
4. “Only by monarchs”
5. “For God’s sake, tell me what song you are singing”
6. “A white stretch of land”
7. “Tears in the royal eyes”
8. “They love their neighbors as themselves”
9. “We concede the islands and lands discovered by you”
10. “As if in their own country”
11. “Mainland, no island”
12. “Whether we can sell those slaves or not”
13. “Malevolent jokes of the goddess Fortune”
Book Three: Bobadilla and Ovando
14. “To course o’er better waters …”
15. “The greatest good that we can wish for”
16. “Teach them and indoctrinate them with good customs”
17. “Children must constantly obey their parents”
18. “You ought to send one hundred black slaves”
19. “And they leapt onto the land”
20. “Call this other place Amerige”
Book Four: Diego Colón
21. “A voice crying in the wilderness”
22. “Infidels may justly defend themselves”
23. “Without partiality, love, or hatred”
Book Five: Balboa and Pedrarias
24. “They took possession of all that sea”
25. “A man very advanced in excess”
Book Six: Cisneros
26. “King Fernando! He is dead!”
27. “Go back and see what is happening”
Book Seven: Charles, King and Emperor
28. “The best place in the world for blacks”
29. “It is clear as day …”
30. “I was moved to act by a natural compassion”
31. “For empire comes from God alone”
32. “The new golden land”
Book Eight: New Spain
33. “I am to pass away like a faded flower”
34. “This land is the richest in the world”
35. “O our lord, thou has suffered”
Book Nine: Magellan and Elcano
36. “Go with good fortune”
Book Ten: The New Empire
37. “The new emperor”
38. “From the poplars I come, mama”
Appendix A: Family Trees
The Albas and the Columbuses
The Spanish Royal Family
The Mendozas
The Ponces de León
The Fonsecas
Appendix B: The Costs of Becoming Emperor, 1519
Appendix C: Registered Vessels Sailing to and from the Indies, 1504–22
Suggested Reading
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
Other Books by This Author
About the Author
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