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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. M Dent
Date Published: 1927
Description: Good+ in Poor jacket. Small inscription to fep, price written to title page, generally very good. Grey paper wrap, large loss to rear side, top edgewear to front side. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Book League of America, New York
Date Published: 1934
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. xiv, 488 p. illus. 21 cm. Includes Illustrations. Ex library but still clean and tight, bumped corners, 82 read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DENT; DUTTON
Date Published: 1957
Description: GOOD READING COPY. Volume 1, 1962 reprint, Hardcover. No Jacket. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dent
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good in Good jacket. Reprinted 1965; Hardback complete with dustcover, unclipped. rest Dustcover worn and torn; internally All in good condition; read more
Description: Published by THE MODERN LIBRARY, hardback with D/J, tall size. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BOOK LEAGUE OF AMERICA
Date Published: 1934-01-01
Description: Very Good. Dark Blue Cloth hardcover, with gold lettering on spine and imprint on front. Previous owner name inside, light wear, "Rough cut" page edges-pages are clean and tight. NO DJ. SUMMARY: History of the discover and conquest of Mexico from 1516-1521. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The Book League of America, New York
Date Published: 1934
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. SOUTH AMERICA-------------The spine has the covering coming off.....The hard cover has some light shelf wear and the pages has yellowing.... read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co
Date Published: 1937
Description: Fair to Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Front hinge is cracked, marker mark inside front flyleaf, library markings, card pocket and date due sticker inside back cover, edgewear and corner bumping, read more
Description: 1948. Dent. Reprint. Hard Covers. Books-VG, volume I boards & spine sunned, gilt titles on spines. 7x4.5. 843pp + 6pp publisher's adverts in total. Two-tone illus endpapers. read more
"This is a great read. It was written in the early 19th century and so has a charming archaic feel to it. But it is not so old as to read as if it were written in Olde English. The author strikes a nice balance between the demands of epistemic responsibility and vivid prose. At many points it reads like a novel, with excited descriptions of this battle or that, but it is also pretty scrupulous about evaluating its source material.
It is also animated by a dramatic ambivalence. Prescott is not afraid to pass judgment on both the conquistadors and their future subjects. Additionally, he has a kind of protestant distaste for Catholicism and Spaniards. Thus the question of the justice of the conquest (and of particular actions that were part of the conquest) is frequently on his mind. It is pretty clear that Cortes is the hero of the story, though. And, moreover, the Aztecs (and other future subject peoples) don't look very good -- viz. their prodigious human sacrifice and cannibalism.
The events portrayed are amazing. Cortes, with only several hundred Spaniards, conquered an empire defended by many thousands. There are great successes, sudden set-backs, betrayals, near disasters... the works.
Finally, the book is rich with material on the history and culture of the pre-Columbian Mexicans. Among this material is an interesting appendix full of very primitive speculation on the origins of human occupation and civilization in the Americas. It is state of the art, 1820."
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