The Conquest of America : The Question of the Other (Paperback)
by Tzvetan Todorov and Richard Howard

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  The Conquest of America (Paperback)
  Published 1992-10-01
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A classic in its field, 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 both Columbus's discovery of America and the Spaniards' subsequent 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. A new foreword by Anthony Pagden discusses the implications of Todorov's landmark study.

 
 
 
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  • ISBN-13: 9780806131375
  • ISBN-10: 0806131373
  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
  • Publish Date: March 1999
  • Page Count: 288

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