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The Conquest of America
Tzvetan Todorov
其他書名
The Question of the Other
出版University of Oklahoma Press, 1999
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / Native AmericanHistory / WorldHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN08061313739780806131375
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LrcX-UKNdBEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.