The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0060912146
ISBN 13
9780060912147
Category
Colonialism/Coloniality
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
288
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Description
The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards’ conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean. Using sixteenth-century sources, the distinguished French writer and critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the beliefs and behavior of the Spanish conquistadors and of the Aztecs, adversaries in a clash of cultures that resulted in the near extermination of Mesoamerica’s Indian population. - from Amzon
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1
