num_pages: 274
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Conquest of America
titlecomplete: The Conquest of America
genres: American, Essays, Politics, Historical, Philosophy, Race, American History, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 1511
publisher: OUP