The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780806131375 (0806131373)
Publish date: March 15th 1999
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
American,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Anthropology,
Theory
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