About this title: In his HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO and its companion volume, the HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU, William Prescott achieves the remarkable feat of portraying the action and adventures of the Spanish cavaliers in a highly readable format for those with little prior knowledge of the Conquests. In HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, Prescott ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: EBLA (UK)
Date Published: 1909
ISBN-13:9780460003971ISBN:0460003976
Description: Very Good. VG in VG jacket Rapid dispatch with careful packaging. We're a friendly and helpful family company, please get in touch if you need any help. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dent
Date Published: 1957
ISBN-13:9780460003988ISBN:0460003984
Description: Very Good. Price clipped jacket, VG+ cond Rapid dispatch with careful packaging. We're a friendly and helpful family company, please get in touch if you need any help. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DENT
Date Published: 1909
ISBN-13:9780460003971ISBN:0460003976
Description: Hardback, no D/J. USED, BUT IN GOOD CONDITION. 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: 1909
ISBN-13:9780460003971ISBN:0460003976
Description: Hardback, no D/J. USED, BUT IN GOOD CONDITION. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. Nice Copy! Clean Pages and Gently Read, Some stains to back cover and a few interior page corners front and back. ~"Guaranteed quality or your money back" read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hurst
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. No writing. 3 pages have a corner crease. Some cover wear, including rubbing & edgewear, plus corner bumps. Green boards with no dustcover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Philadelphia: David McKay, Philadelphia
Description: VG. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. No Jacket; Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Some wear om cover. Frontispiece. read more
Description: Good. Book is ex-library with stamp to title-page. Book has edgewear, rubbing, bumping to corners, sunwear to edges, minor stain to foredge, and crack to front cover. read more
Description: Good. Copyright 1966 previous library hardback; no dustjacket, some stamps and stickers, no marks or writing within text. RTB674. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library with Usual Markings. 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" Excellent tan cloth hardback with no apparent wear. Cover has a couple of minor smudges. Binding is very tight, and the pages are bright and clean with no marks or notes except for a couple of library stamps. 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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