Author: Chuck Tingle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781975895365
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A must read for any political junkie, Pounded By Politics Again: Nine More Tales Of Civic Butthole Diplomacy collects Chuck Tingle's finest stories of hardcore gay democracy in action. Whether it's hardcore fake news causing very real boners, or a handsome living corn getting fired in the butt, this assortment of erotic fiction has something for buckaroos of every political background.Within this compilation you will find the following inspirational tinglers...FAKE NEWS REAL BONERSDOMALD TROMP POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY THE HANDSOME RUSSIAN T-REX WHO ALSO PEED ON HIS BUTT AND THEN BLACKMAILED HIM WITH THE VIDEOS OF HIS BUTT GETTING PEED ONREDACTED IN THE BUTT BY REDACTED UNDER THE TROMP ADMINISTRATIONDOMALD TROMP POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY HIS FABRICATED WIRETAPPING SCANDAL MADE UP TO REDIRECT FOCUS AWAY FROM HIS SEEMINGLY ENDLESS UNETHICAL CONNECTIONS TO RUSSIAPOUINDED IN THE BUTT BY THE SENTIENT MANIFESTATION OF MY OWN IGNORANT CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALDOMALD TROMP'S ASS IS HAUNTED BY THE HANDSOME GHOST OF HIS INCRIMINATING TAX RETURNSLIVING CORN JAMES CORNY FIRED IN THE BUTTPOUNDED IN THE BUTT BY COVFEFEENGLAND'S ASS IS HAUNTED BY A HUNG PARLIAMENT
Pounded by Politics Again: Nine More Tales of Civic Butthole Diplomacy
Author: Chuck Tingle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781975895365
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A must read for any political junkie, Pounded By Politics Again: Nine More Tales Of Civic Butthole Diplomacy collects Chuck Tingle's finest stories of hardcore gay democracy in action. Whether it's hardcore fake news causing very real boners, or a handsome living corn getting fired in the butt, this assortment of erotic fiction has something for buckaroos of every political background.Within this compilation you will find the following inspirational tinglers...FAKE NEWS REAL BONERSDOMALD TROMP POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY THE HANDSOME RUSSIAN T-REX WHO ALSO PEED ON HIS BUTT AND THEN BLACKMAILED HIM WITH THE VIDEOS OF HIS BUTT GETTING PEED ONREDACTED IN THE BUTT BY REDACTED UNDER THE TROMP ADMINISTRATIONDOMALD TROMP POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY HIS FABRICATED WIRETAPPING SCANDAL MADE UP TO REDIRECT FOCUS AWAY FROM HIS SEEMINGLY ENDLESS UNETHICAL CONNECTIONS TO RUSSIAPOUINDED IN THE BUTT BY THE SENTIENT MANIFESTATION OF MY OWN IGNORANT CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALDOMALD TROMP'S ASS IS HAUNTED BY THE HANDSOME GHOST OF HIS INCRIMINATING TAX RETURNSLIVING CORN JAMES CORNY FIRED IN THE BUTTPOUNDED IN THE BUTT BY COVFEFEENGLAND'S ASS IS HAUNTED BY A HUNG PARLIAMENT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781975895365
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A must read for any political junkie, Pounded By Politics Again: Nine More Tales Of Civic Butthole Diplomacy collects Chuck Tingle's finest stories of hardcore gay democracy in action. Whether it's hardcore fake news causing very real boners, or a handsome living corn getting fired in the butt, this assortment of erotic fiction has something for buckaroos of every political background.Within this compilation you will find the following inspirational tinglers...FAKE NEWS REAL BONERSDOMALD TROMP POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY THE HANDSOME RUSSIAN T-REX WHO ALSO PEED ON HIS BUTT AND THEN BLACKMAILED HIM WITH THE VIDEOS OF HIS BUTT GETTING PEED ONREDACTED IN THE BUTT BY REDACTED UNDER THE TROMP ADMINISTRATIONDOMALD TROMP POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY HIS FABRICATED WIRETAPPING SCANDAL MADE UP TO REDIRECT FOCUS AWAY FROM HIS SEEMINGLY ENDLESS UNETHICAL CONNECTIONS TO RUSSIAPOUINDED IN THE BUTT BY THE SENTIENT MANIFESTATION OF MY OWN IGNORANT CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALDOMALD TROMP'S ASS IS HAUNTED BY THE HANDSOME GHOST OF HIS INCRIMINATING TAX RETURNSLIVING CORN JAMES CORNY FIRED IN THE BUTTPOUNDED IN THE BUTT BY COVFEFEENGLAND'S ASS IS HAUNTED BY A HUNG PARLIAMENT
Pounded by Politics
Author: Chuck Tingle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539878155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A must read for any political junkie, Pounded By Politics: Nine Tales Of Civic Butthole Diplomacy collects Chuck Tingle's finest stories of hardcore gay democracy in action. Whether it's First Buckaroo Bill horsing around in the White House, or a handsome living corn putting it all on the line for a hotshot agricultural lobbyist, this assortment of erotic fiction has something for buckaroos of every political background.Within this compilation you will find the following inspirational tinglers...POUNDED BY THE POUND: TURNED GAY BY THE SOCIOECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF BRITAIN LEAVING THE EUROPEAN UNIONFEELING THE BERN IN MY BUTTPRESIDENT DOMALD LOCH NESS TROMP POUNDS AMERICA'S BUTTSLAMMED IN THE BUTT BY DOMALD TROMP'S ATTEMPT TO AVOID ACCUSATIONS OF PLAGIARISM BY REMOVING ALL FACTS OR CONCRETE PLANS FROM HIS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SPEECHCREAMED IN THE BUTT BY MY HANDSOME LIVING CORNFIRST BUCKAROO BILL POUNDED BY THE HANDSOME LIVING WHITE HOUSEPOUNDED BY PRESIDENT BIGFOOTPOUNDED IN THE BUTT BY MY LEAKED MASHLY ADDISON DATASLAMMED IN THE BUTT BY THE HANDSOME SENTIENT MANIFESTATION OF ELECTION DAY
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539878155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A must read for any political junkie, Pounded By Politics: Nine Tales Of Civic Butthole Diplomacy collects Chuck Tingle's finest stories of hardcore gay democracy in action. Whether it's First Buckaroo Bill horsing around in the White House, or a handsome living corn putting it all on the line for a hotshot agricultural lobbyist, this assortment of erotic fiction has something for buckaroos of every political background.Within this compilation you will find the following inspirational tinglers...POUNDED BY THE POUND: TURNED GAY BY THE SOCIOECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF BRITAIN LEAVING THE EUROPEAN UNIONFEELING THE BERN IN MY BUTTPRESIDENT DOMALD LOCH NESS TROMP POUNDS AMERICA'S BUTTSLAMMED IN THE BUTT BY DOMALD TROMP'S ATTEMPT TO AVOID ACCUSATIONS OF PLAGIARISM BY REMOVING ALL FACTS OR CONCRETE PLANS FROM HIS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SPEECHCREAMED IN THE BUTT BY MY HANDSOME LIVING CORNFIRST BUCKAROO BILL POUNDED BY THE HANDSOME LIVING WHITE HOUSEPOUNDED BY PRESIDENT BIGFOOTPOUNDED IN THE BUTT BY MY LEAKED MASHLY ADDISON DATASLAMMED IN THE BUTT BY THE HANDSOME SENTIENT MANIFESTATION OF ELECTION DAY
Transcension
Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429971320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Damien Broderick has been a leading Australian SF writer since the ‘70s. His novel The Dreaming Dragons was listed in SF: the 100 best novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Spike, is a mind-stretching look at the wonders of the high-tech future. Now in Transcension he brings to life one of the futures he imagined in The Spike, a world pervaded by nanotechnology and governed by artificial intelligence. Transcension may be Broderick’s best book yet. Amanda is a brilliant violinist, a mathematical genius, and a rebel. Impatient for the adult status her society only grants at age thirty, but determined to have a real adventure first, she has repeatedly gotten into trouble and found herself in the courtroom of Magistrate Mohammed Abdel-Malik, the sole resurrectee from among those who were frozen in the early twenty-first century, the man whose mind was the seed for Aleph, the AI that rules this utopia. Mathewmark is a real adolescent, living in the last place where they still exist, the reservation known as the Valley of the God of One's Choice, where those who have chosen faith over technology are allowed to live out their simpler lives. When Amanda determines that access to the valley is the key to the daring stunt she plans, it is Mathewmark she will have to lead into temptation. But just as Amanda, Mathewmark, and Abdel-Malik are struggling to find themselves and achieve their potentials, so is Aleph, and the AI's success will be a challenge to them and all of humanity. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429971320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Damien Broderick has been a leading Australian SF writer since the ‘70s. His novel The Dreaming Dragons was listed in SF: the 100 best novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Spike, is a mind-stretching look at the wonders of the high-tech future. Now in Transcension he brings to life one of the futures he imagined in The Spike, a world pervaded by nanotechnology and governed by artificial intelligence. Transcension may be Broderick’s best book yet. Amanda is a brilliant violinist, a mathematical genius, and a rebel. Impatient for the adult status her society only grants at age thirty, but determined to have a real adventure first, she has repeatedly gotten into trouble and found herself in the courtroom of Magistrate Mohammed Abdel-Malik, the sole resurrectee from among those who were frozen in the early twenty-first century, the man whose mind was the seed for Aleph, the AI that rules this utopia. Mathewmark is a real adolescent, living in the last place where they still exist, the reservation known as the Valley of the God of One's Choice, where those who have chosen faith over technology are allowed to live out their simpler lives. When Amanda determines that access to the valley is the key to the daring stunt she plans, it is Mathewmark she will have to lead into temptation. But just as Amanda, Mathewmark, and Abdel-Malik are struggling to find themselves and achieve their potentials, so is Aleph, and the AI's success will be a challenge to them and all of humanity. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
Great Fortune
Author: Daniel Okrent
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666900
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world. At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666900
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world. At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis.
Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Madman, tyrant, animal—history has given Adolf Hitler many names. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), often called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small town in Austria, the young Adolf grew up with the fervent desire to become a painter. The death of his parents and outright rejection from art schools in Vienna forced him into underpaid work as a laborer. During the First World War, Hitler served in the infantry and was decorated for bravery. After the war, he became actively involved with socialist political groups and quickly rose to power, establishing himself as Chairman of the National Socialist German Worker's party. In 1924, Hitler led a coalition of nationalist groups in a bid to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich. The infamous Munich "Beer-hall putsch" was unsuccessful, and Hitler was arrested. During the nine months he was in prison, an embittered and frustrated Hitler dictated a personal manifesto to his loyal follower Rudolph Hess. He vented his sentiments against communism and the Jewish people in this document, which was to become Mein Kampf, the controversial book that is seen as the blue-print for Hitler's political and military campaign. In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes his strategy for rebuilding Germany and conquering Europe. It is a glimpse into the mind of a man who destabilized world peace and pursued the genocide now known as the Holocaust.
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Madman, tyrant, animal—history has given Adolf Hitler many names. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), often called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small town in Austria, the young Adolf grew up with the fervent desire to become a painter. The death of his parents and outright rejection from art schools in Vienna forced him into underpaid work as a laborer. During the First World War, Hitler served in the infantry and was decorated for bravery. After the war, he became actively involved with socialist political groups and quickly rose to power, establishing himself as Chairman of the National Socialist German Worker's party. In 1924, Hitler led a coalition of nationalist groups in a bid to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich. The infamous Munich "Beer-hall putsch" was unsuccessful, and Hitler was arrested. During the nine months he was in prison, an embittered and frustrated Hitler dictated a personal manifesto to his loyal follower Rudolph Hess. He vented his sentiments against communism and the Jewish people in this document, which was to become Mein Kampf, the controversial book that is seen as the blue-print for Hitler's political and military campaign. In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes his strategy for rebuilding Germany and conquering Europe. It is a glimpse into the mind of a man who destabilized world peace and pursued the genocide now known as the Holocaust.
Overthrow
Author: Stephen Kinzer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.
Vatican Secret Diplomacy
Author: Charles R. Gallagher
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300148216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley’s deeply felt American patriotism and fixed ideas about confronting Nazism directly led to a mighty clash with Pope Pius XII. It was 1939, the earliest days of Pius’s papacy, and controversy within the Vatican over policy toward Nazi Germany was already heated. This groundbreaking book is both a biography of Joseph Hurley, the first American to achieve the rank of nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, and an insider’s view of the alleged silence of the pope on the Holocaust and Nazism. Drawing on Hurley’s unpublished archives, the book documents critical debates in Pope Pius’s Vatican, secret U.S.-Vatican dealings, the influence of Detroit’s flamboyant anti-Semitic priest Charles E. Coughlin, and the controversial case of Croatia’s Cardinal Stepinac. The book also sheds light on the powerful connections between religion and politics in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300148216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley’s deeply felt American patriotism and fixed ideas about confronting Nazism directly led to a mighty clash with Pope Pius XII. It was 1939, the earliest days of Pius’s papacy, and controversy within the Vatican over policy toward Nazi Germany was already heated. This groundbreaking book is both a biography of Joseph Hurley, the first American to achieve the rank of nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, and an insider’s view of the alleged silence of the pope on the Holocaust and Nazism. Drawing on Hurley’s unpublished archives, the book documents critical debates in Pope Pius’s Vatican, secret U.S.-Vatican dealings, the influence of Detroit’s flamboyant anti-Semitic priest Charles E. Coughlin, and the controversial case of Croatia’s Cardinal Stepinac. The book also sheds light on the powerful connections between religion and politics in the twentieth century.
Killing Hope
Author: William Blum
Publisher:
ISBN: 1350348198
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1350348198
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.
The Black Jacobins
Author: C.L.R. James
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593687337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593687337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Spain, a Global History
Author: Luis Francisco Martinez Montes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788494938115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788494938115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.