Author: Hernán CortésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Fernando Cortes
Author: Hernán CortésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Fernando Cortes
Author: Hernán Cortés DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Mexico and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés
Author: William Hickling PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Fernando Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico, 1485-1547
Author: Francis Augustus MacNuttPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Mexico, and the Life of the Conqueror Fernando Cortes
Author: William Hickling PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Fernando Cortes, His Five Letters of Relation to the Emperor Charles V
Author: Hernán CortésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Conquistadores
Author: Fernando CervantesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world “The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how to tell a good story.” —The Times (London) Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history.
Five Letters, 1519-1526
Author: Hernán CortésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Fernando Cortes, His Five Letters of Relation to the Emperor Charles V [1519-1526]
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Author: Hernán CortésPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873801256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Hernando Cortés
Author: John Paul ZronikPublisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778724346
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Learn about the Spanish conqueror's invasion of Mexico.