Bücher von Gordon S. Brown

When anti-colonial revolts broke out in Spain's American colonies in the early 1800s, the United States were divided as to what position to take. Proximity and America's own anti-colonial ethos favoured sympathy with the rebel cause, yet US strategic interests during the tumultuous Napoleonic Wars dictated a policy of neutrality.

This study of the Norman conquest of Southern Italy focuses on the eight sons of Tancred of Hauteville, especially Robert Guiscard and his youngest brother Roger, and discusses how they expanded their lands thoughout Southern Italy and then took Sicily from its Muslim rulers.