The Conquest of America(English, Paperback, Todorov Tzvetan)

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The Conquest of America(English, Paperback, Todorov Tzvetan) is written by Todorov Tzvetan and published by University of Oklahoma Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0806131373 (ISBN 10) and 9780806131375 (ISBN 13).

A classic in its field, The Conquest of America is a study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of both Columbus's discovery of America and the Spaniards' subsequent 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. A new foreword by Anthony Pagden discusses the implications of Todorov's landmark study.