The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction
"Dismissing hoary myths, revising the political narrative, integrating the new findings from ethnohistory, and never losing  sight of  the conquistadors themselves and their indigenous allies as the protagonists of the story, this book provides an intelligent and  fresh overview  of the conquest of Spanish America for twenty-first century readers." -Stuart Schwartz, author ofVictors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico