The Conquest of America
The Question of the Other
By Tzvetan Todorov; Richard Howard (Translator); Anthony Pagden (Foreword by)
(University of Oklahoma Press, Paperback, 9780806131375, 288pp.)
Publication Date: March 1999
Categories: Native American, Americas (North Central South West Indies), World - General
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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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