by Andrew Rowen | Dec 6, 2025 | New York City
My earlier books set Queen Isabel and King Fernando’s missionary plan for “Española” within the intellectual framework of their actions to Christianize their Spanish kingdoms through the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, and the completion of the Reconquista and...
by Andrew Rowen | Nov 28, 2025 | New York City
Mestizo society began on “Española” when Spanish rebels squatting in Xaraguá cohabitated and had children with Xaraguán women and Spanish settlers loyal to Columbus did so elsewhere on the island. Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold depicts the...
by Andrew Rowen | Nov 10, 2025 | New York City
Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold released this morning! The years 1498 to 1502 are the least studied and written about of “Española’s” brutal conquest, and the book steps beyond portrayals of Queen Isabel, Chieftain Anacaona, and Columbus...
by Andrew Rowen | Nov 2, 2025 | New York City
Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise closely traces Columbus’s life, objectives, and actions as governor of “Española” from September 1498 to his removal in October 1500, a period when he didn’t go to sea and which is often abbreviated or ignored in biographies of...
by Andrew Rowen | Oct 23, 2025 | New York City
Biographies of Spain’s Queen Isabel generally depict her extraordinary legacies in giving birth to both modern Spain (ruling Castile and Aragón jointly with her husband, Fernando, for decades and completing the Reconquista) and Spanish America, as well as the...
