Военная история / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates

Название: The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates
Автор(ы): Fabio T. Lopez Lazaro
Издательство: University of Texas Press
Год: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-292-72997-1
Страниц: 257
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 29 MB

The Misfortunes of Alonso Ram?rez has long been regarded as a work of fiction—in fact, as Latin America's first novel—but Fabio L?pez L?zaro makes a convincing case that the book is a historical account of real events, albeit full of distortions and lies. Using contemporary published accounts, as well as newly discovered documents from Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch archives, he proves that Ram?rez voyaged with one of the most famous pirates of all time, William Dampier. L?pez L?zaro's critical translation of The Misfortunes provides the only extensive Spanish eyewitness account of pirates during the period in world history (1650–1750) when they became key agents of the European powers jockeying for international political and economic dominance. An extensive introduction places The Misfortunes within the worldwide struggle that Spain, England, and Holland waged against the ambitious Louis XIV of France, which some historians consider to be the first world war.