Forgotten Conquests: Rereading New World History from the Margins

Borrowing from the old adage, we might say that to the victor belongs the history. One of the privileges gained in colonizing the New World was the power to tell the definitive stories of the struggle. The heroic texts depicting the discovery of territories, early encounters with indigenous peoples, and the ultimate subjection of land anda cultures to European nation-states all but erase the vanquished. In "Forgotten Conquests," Gustavo Verdesio argues that these master narratives represent...