The Conquest of America

The Question of the Other

von Tzvetan Todorov

292 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780806131375
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2020
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press