The Essential Diaz: Selections from The Conquest of New Spain

by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Janet Burke (Translator), Ted Humphrey

Overview

Ideally suited for use in swift-moving surveys of World, Atlantic, and Latin American history, this abridgment of Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke's 2012 translation of the True History provides key excerpts from Diaz's text and concise summaries of omitted passages. Included in this edition is a new preface outlining the social, economic, and political forces that motivated the European discovery of the New World.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781624661624
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/2014
Series:	Hackett Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	765 KB

About the Author

Janet Burke is Associate Dean in Barrett, the Honors College, and Lincoln Fellow for Ethics and Latin American Intellectual History in the Lincoln Center for Ethics, at Arizona State University.

Ted Humphrey is President’s Professor, Barrett Professor, and Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Latin American Intellectual History at Arizona State University.