The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

by Tzvetan Todorov, Anthony Pagden, Richard Howard

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806131375
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	03/15/1999
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	274
Sales rank:	514,704
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.66(d)

About 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.