The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction

The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199753172

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With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established was even stranger than their real achievements. This Very Short Introduction deploys the latest scholarship to shatter and replace the traditional narrative


The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: Matthew Restall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-24 - Publisher: OUP USA

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This Very Short Introduction examines the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Americas in the sixteenth century, as well as the Native American Kingdoms they
The Aztecs
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: David Carrasco
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-26 - Publisher: OUP USA

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Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also p
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Matthew Restall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 reve
The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Matthew Restall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya commu
Invading Guatemala
Language: en
Pages: 154
Authors: Matthew Restall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts