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100 1  Cervantes, Fernando,|eauthor. 
245 10 Conquistadores :|ba new history of Spanish discovery and 
       conquest /|cFernando Cervantes. 
246 30 New history of Spanish discovery and conquest 
250    First North American edition. 
264  1 [New York, New York] :|bViking,|c2021. 
300    xviii, 493 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-464) and 
       index. 
520    "A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain 
       and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and 
       morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European
       kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the 
       world "The depth of research in this book is astonishing, 
       but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes
       applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in 
       delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows 
       how to tell a good story." -The Times (London) 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 took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives 
       to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build
       an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But 
       centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff
       of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as 
       heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and 
       helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever 
       seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and 
       exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations 
       and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of 
       gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican 
       historian Fernando Cervantes-himself a descendent of one 
       of the conquistadors-cuts through the layers of myth and 
       fiction to help us better understand the context that gave
       rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon 
       previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, 
       letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes 
       immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious 
       world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us 
       as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the 
       conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, 
       illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish 
       conquest of the New World and the half-century that 
       irrevocably altered the course of history"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Conquerors|zSpain|xHistory. 
650  0 Conquerors|zAmerica|xHistory. 
651  0 America|xDiscovery and exploration|xSpanish. 
651  0 Latin America|xHistory|yTo 1600. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aCervantes, Fernando.
       |tConquistadors|dLondon : Allen Lane, an imprint of 
       Penguin Books, 2020|z9780241242148