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 Format: Paperback, 274 pages
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806131373
Release Date: Jan 1, 1997
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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.
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| | | |  | | | | Foreword | | | 1 | Discovery | 1 | | The Discovery of America | 3 | | Columbus as Interpreter | 14 | | Columbus and the Indians | 34 | | 2 | Conquest | 51 | | The Reasons for the Victory | 53 | | Montezuma and Signs | 63 | | Cortes and Signs | 98 | | 3 | Love | 125 | | Understanding, Taking Possession, and Destroying | 127 | | Equality or Inequality | 146 | | Enslavement, Colonialism, and Communication | 168 | | 4 | Knowledge | 183 | | Typology of Relations to the Other | 185 | | Duran, or the Hybridization of Cultures | 202 | | Sahagun and His Work | 219 | | Epilogue | 243 | | Las Casas's Prophecy | 245 | | Bibliographic Note | 255 | | References | 259 | | Index | 265 |
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