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The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish
America, have become the stuff of legends and 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 the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs and the
Incas, and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and
glory.
In Conquistadores, Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes
cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to immerse the reader in the
world of the late-medieval imperialist. It is a world as unfamiliar to
us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadores
themselves. Drawing upon a wide range of sources including diaries,
letters, chronicles and treatises, Cervantes reframes the story of the
Spanish conquest of the New World, set against the political and
intellectual landscape from which its main actors emerged. At the heart
of the story are the conquistadores, whose epic ambitions and moral
contradictions defined an era.
From Columbus to Cortés, Pizarro
and beyond, the explorers we think we know come alive in this
thought-provoking and illuminating account of a period that irrevocably
altered the course of world history.
America, have become the stuff of legends and 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 the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs and the
Incas, and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and
glory.
In Conquistadores, Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes
cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to immerse the reader in the
world of the late-medieval imperialist. It is a world as unfamiliar to
us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadores
themselves. Drawing upon a wide range of sources including diaries,
letters, chronicles and treatises, Cervantes reframes the story of the
Spanish conquest of the New World, set against the political and
intellectual landscape from which its main actors emerged. At the heart
of the story are the conquistadores, whose epic ambitions and moral
contradictions defined an era.
From Columbus to Cortés, Pizarro
and beyond, the explorers we think we know come alive in this
thought-provoking and illuminating account of a period that irrevocably
altered the course of world history.
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Año:
2019
Editorial:
2020
Idioma:
english
ISBN 10:
0241242150
ISBN 13:
9780241242155
Archivo:
EPUB, 24.26 MB
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IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2019
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