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ISBN
9780806131375
Published
1999-03-30
Publisher
Vendor
University of Oklahoma Press
Weight
354 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
137 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author
Foreword by
Translated by
Biographical note
Tzvetan Todorov is the author if more than a dozen books, including Theories of the Symbol, On Human Diversity, Facing the Extreme, and A French Tragedy.
A classic in its field, The Conquest of America is a 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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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.
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Product details
ISBN
9780806131375
Published
1999-03-30
Publisher
Vendor
University of Oklahoma Press
Weight
354 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
137 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author
Foreword by
Translated by