Conquistadores : a new history of Spanish discovery and conquest /
Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most formidable civilizations of the Americas, the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro and the other explorers and soldiers that t...
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New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Discoveries, 1492-1511 :
- 1. The ocean sea
- 2. The admiral
- 3. Hispaniola
- 4. A question of justice
- Part II. Conquests, 1510-33 :
- 5. Cuba
- 6. Imperial designs
- 7. The lure of China
- 8. Tenochtitlan
- 9. Defeat and victory
- 10. The Grand Chancellor's dream
- 11. The world of the mendicants
- 12. Spices and gold
- 13. Cajamarca
- Part III. Disenchantment, 1533-42 :
- 14. Cusco
- 15. Manqo Inka
- 16. The end of an era
- Reassessment.