The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

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Overview

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.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780806131375
  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
  • Publication date: 3/28/1999
  • Pages: 274
  • Sales rank: 591,180
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

Foreword
1 Discovery 1
The Discovery of America 3
Columbus as Interpreter 14
Columbus and the Indians 34
2 Conquest 51
The Reasons for the Victory 53
Montezuma and Signs 63
Cortes and Signs 98
3 Love 125
Understanding, Taking Possession, and Destroying 127
Equality or Inequality 146
Enslavement, Colonialism, and Communication 168
4 Knowledge 183
Typology of Relations to the Other 185
Duran, or the Hybridization of Cultures 202
Sahagun and His Work 219
Epilogue 243
Las Casas's Prophecy 245
Bibliographic Note 255
References 259
Index 265
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