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The Conquest of New Spain by B Diaz Del Castillo Publisher Comments Fifty years after the startling defeat of the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a magnificent account on his experience as a soldier in CortésÆs army.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Migue Leon Portillo Publisher Comments For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Letters of Cortez to the Emperor by Hernando Cortes Publisher Comments These five letters by the Spanish Conqueror Hernando Cortes were written to the Emperor Charles V of Spain between the years 1519 and 1526. They describe the earliest discoveries of the mainland, the perilous trek into hostile country, the capture of the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Handbook #144: Desoto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the Northern Mystery by David Lavender Publisher Comments This official government handbook describes the expeditions of the Spanish explorers, DeSoto, Coronado, and Cabrillo and their encounters with the new world of America and its native peoples. Also provides information about the national... (read more) List Price $5.56 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521 by Bernal Del Castillo Publisher Comments Paperback reissue.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Conquest: The Destruction of the American Indios by Massimo Livi Bacci Publisher Comments The arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought with it a demographic catastrophe of vast proportions for the native populations. What were the causes? The surviving documentation is extraordinarily rich: conquistadors, religious figures, administrators,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cortes and Montezuma by Maurice Collis Publisher Comments Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pizarro by Stuart Stirling Publisher Comments Stuart Stirling's book brings Pizarro fully to life while also doing justice to the extraordinary background of exploration, discovery, empire building and the clash of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Conquistadors by Michael Wood Publisher Comments An exciting historical journey which follows the Spanish conquistadors through Central and South America.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account by Bartolome De Las Casas Publisher Comments "One of the major sources for the study on the interraction between whites and American Indians during the sixteenth century." -- Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rivers of Gold: the Rise of the Spanish Empire, From Columbus To Magellan (03 Edition) by Hugh Thomas Publisher Comments From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spains early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomass magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The New World of Martin Cortes by Anna Lanyon Publisher Comments Looks at the life of the illegitimate son of conquistador Hernan Cortes and the indigenous American woman who translated for him--the legendary Malinche.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Titu Cusi: A 16th Century Account of the Conquest (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H) by Nicole Deli Legnani Publisher Comments First written in 1570, this work now published for the first time in modern Spanish with an English translation sheds light on the Inqa (Inca) world. The writing of Instrucción followed more than a decade of negotiations and skirmishes between... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Conquistador: Mansio Serra de Leguizamon and the Conquest of the Incas by Stuart Stirling Synopsis This is the story of the truly amazing life of the last of the conquistadors, Mansio Serra de Leguizamon.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Maya Conquistador by Matthew Restall Publisher Comments Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin Classics) by Bartolome De Las Casas Publisher Comments No work is a stronger, more exacting, heartbreaking record of the Spanish atrocities in the genocidal enterprise of colonization in the Americas. This account provides an eyewitnessÆs history of the process in the territory of Columbus.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conquistadors by Michael Wood Publisher Comments Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hern&... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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History of the Conquest of Mexico Volume 2 by William H Prescott Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Witness: Writings of Bartolome de las Casas by Las Casas TOC pt. 1. Historian -- pt. 2. Autobiographer -- pt. 3. Anthropologist -- pt. 4. Political thinker.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conquest of America by Tzvetan Todorov Description Bibliography: p. [255]-263.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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