The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction write by Matthew Restall. This book was released on 2012-01-24. The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Very Short Introduction examines the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Americas in the sixteenth century, as well as the Native American Kingdoms they invaded.
The Aztecs
The Aztecs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aztecs write by David Carrasco. This book was released on 2012-01-26. The Aztecs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest write by Matthew Restall. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and themes that were for generations debated or perpetuated without question in academic and popular circles. The 2003 edition became the foundation stone of a scholarly turn since called The New Conquest History. Each of the book's seven chapters describes one "myth," or one aspect of the Conquest that has been distorted or misrepresented, examines its roots, and explodes its fallacies and misconceptions. Using a wide array of primary and secondary sources, written in a scholarly but readable style, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest explains why Columbus did not set out to prove the world was round, the conquistadors were not soldiers, the native Americans did not take them for gods, Cortés did not have a unique vision of conquest procedure, and handfuls of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. Conquest realities were more complex--and far more fascinating--than conventional histories have related, and they featured a more diverse cast of protagonists-Spanish, Native American, and African. This updated edition of a key event in the history of the Americas critically examines the book's arguments, how they have held up, and why they prompted the rise of a New Conquest History.
The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mexican Revolution write by Alan Knight. This book was released on 2016. The Mexican Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Mexican Revolution was a 'great' revolution, decisive for Mexico, important within Latin America, and comparable to the other major revolutions of modern history. Alan Knight offers a succinct account of the period, from the initial uprising against Porfirio Diaz and the ensuing decade of civil war, to the enduring legacy of the Revolution.
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Discovery and Conquest of Peru write by Pedro de Cieza de Leon. This book was released on 1999-02-11. The Discovery and Conquest of Peru available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s conquistador compatriates, as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook present this recently discovered third book of a four-part chronicle that provides the most thorough and definitive record of the birth of modern Andean America. It describes with unparalleled detail the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa, the Indian resistance, and the ultimate Spanish domination. Students and scholars of Latin American history and conquest narratives will welcome the publication of this volume.
