Hugh Thomas (Author of The Spanish Civil War)

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Hugh Thomas

Born

in Windsor, The United Kingdom

October 21, 1931

Died

May 06, 2017

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Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, was a British historian and Hispanist.

Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens' College, Cambridge. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 1961 book The Spanish Civil War won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was published in 1977. Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971) is a book of over 1,500 pages tracing the history of Cuba from Spanish colonial rule until the Cuban Revolution. Thomas spent 10 years researching the contents of this book.

Thomas was married to the former Vanessa Jebb, daughter of ...more

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	The Spanish Civil War 4.14 avg rating — 1,377 ratings — published 1961 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conquest: Montezuma, Cort茅s and the Fall of Old Mexico 4.34 avg rating — 1,125 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan 3.76 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2002 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 3.98 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 1997 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America 3.65 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	World Without End: Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire 3.59 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2014 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murder of Rudolf Hess 3.37 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1979 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Unfinished History of the World 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cort茅s, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

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“The philosophy of the discoveries, the emigration, and the colonisation was Christianity.”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cort茅s, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

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“Yet to read into the past the morality of our time (or the lack of it) may not make the historian鈥檚 task any easier.”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cort茅s, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

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