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Conquistadores - A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest (Hardcover)
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Conquistadores - A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest (Hardcover)
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A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its
legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory
campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the
formidable empires in the world "The depth of research in this book
is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill
Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in
delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how to
tell a good story." -The Times (London) Over the few short decades
that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean
in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the
Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernan
Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers
that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to
seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire
unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these
conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own
time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading
Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the
world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty
and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and
carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory.
In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando
Cervantes-himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors-cuts
through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand
the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing
upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries,
letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us
in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century
Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the
New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His
thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the
Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that
irrevocably altered the course of history.
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