The Conquest of America

The Question of the Other

• Author(s): Tzvetan Todorov,
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Pages: 274
• ISBN_10: 0806131373
  ISBN_13: 9780806131375
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / General , History / Native American , History / World , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) ,

Description:... 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.