Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The Conquest of Mexico
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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History of the Conquest of Peru
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Works of William H. Prescott
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
Author: William H. Prescott
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307769763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. "Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307769763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. "Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."
The Conquest of Mexico
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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History of the Conquest of Peru
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 444
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 444
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Mexico City
Author: Nick Caistor
Publisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781902669076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A cultural guide to the Mexico City.
Publisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781902669076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A cultural guide to the Mexico City.
Spanish Peru, 1532–1560
Author: James Lockhart
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299141632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
When Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 was published in 1968, it was acclaimed as an innovative study of the early Spanish presence in Peru. It has since become a classic of the literature in Spanish American social history, important in helping to introduce career-pattern history to the field and notable for its broad yet intimate picture of the functioning of an entire society. In this second edition, James Lockhart provides a new conclusion and preface, updated terminology, and additional footnotes.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299141632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
When Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 was published in 1968, it was acclaimed as an innovative study of the early Spanish presence in Peru. It has since become a classic of the literature in Spanish American social history, important in helping to introduce career-pattern history to the field and notable for its broad yet intimate picture of the functioning of an entire society. In this second edition, James Lockhart provides a new conclusion and preface, updated terminology, and additional footnotes.
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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