Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
6
result(s) for
"Conquerors North America History."
Sort by:
Miradas sobre Hernán Cortés
Reconocidos especialistas ofrecen al lector un conocimiento más justo y objetivo de un hombre [Texto de la editorial]
eBook
Seven myths of the Spanish conquest
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortés, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the fallacies and misconceptions behind each myth. This vividly written and authoritative book shows, for instance, that native Americans did not take the conquistadors for gods and that small numbers of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. We discover that Columbus was correctly seen in his lifetime--and for decades after--as a briefly fortunate but unexceptional participant in efforts involving many southern Europeans. It was only much later that Columbus was portrayed as a great man who fought against the ignorance of his age to discover the new world. Restall also shows that the Spanish Conquest relied heavily on black and native allies, who provided many thousands of fighters, vastly outnumbering the conquistadors. In fact, the native perception of the Conquest differed sharply from the Spanish version--they saw it as a native civil war in which the Spaniards played an important but secondary role. The Conquest, Restall shows, was more complex--and more fascinating--than conventional histories have portrayed it. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest offers a richer and more nuanced account of a key event in the history of the Americas.
eBook
Conquistadors, Excavators, or Rodents: What Damaged the King Site Skeletons?
It has been claimed that many Native American skeletons from the King site in Georgia show evidence of wounds from sharp-edged metal weapons that were wielded by members of the sixteenth-century de Soto expedition (Blakely and Mathews 1990). The supposed massacre of these villagers has caught the attention of the public and scholars alike. But we failed to find any evidence of damage caused by sixteenth-century Spanish weapons in our examination of the King site skeletons. Our finding-there is no evidence for a massacre-eliminates a major discrepancy between historical and archaeological information used in reconstructions of the de Soto route.
Journal Article
The Nature of Conquest: Indians, Americans, and Environmental History
This chapter contains sections titled:
Indian Environments
Environmental Change in Indian Conquest
Environmental History of Modern Indian America
Book Chapter
The First Thanksgiving
\"It is no longer news that Spanish conquistadores--not British Pilgrims--staged the first Thanksgiving on present United States soil.\" (NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE) Learn about Coronado's and Don Juan de Onate's expeditions to the new world and their thanksgiving celebrations.
Magazine Article