History of the Conquest of Mexico
It is a magnificent epic, said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece, judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses o…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-76976-3
- EAN: 9780307769763
- Produktnummer: 15736708
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 1056 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'173 KB
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William H. Prescott, the renowned American historian who chronicled the rise and fall of the Spanish empire, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1796. His greatest work, History of the Conquest of Mexico, was published in 1843. He died of a stroke at his home in Boston in 1859.James Lockhart (1933-2014) was professor emeritus in history at UCLA. He wrote a number of books about early Latin American history, including Spanish Peru, 1532-1560; The Men of Cajamarca; and The Nahuas After the Conquest.
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