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  • Hans Staden's True History

    An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil

    by Hans Staden, Jo Ellen Fair ...
    Translated by Michael Harbsmeier, Neil L. Whitehead ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinambá, an indigenous people who had a reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of the French, were hostile to the Portuguese. Staden’s True History, first published in Germany in 1557, tells the story of his nine months ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    by Matthew Restall ...
    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, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Patagonia

    A Cultural History

    by Chris Moss ...
    Series Book 8 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small ... Read more

    $11.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lieutenant Nun

    Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

    by Catalina De Erauso ...
    One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Aztecs

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Carrasco ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established was even stranger than their real achievements. This Very Short Introduction deploys the latest ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race

    by Willie James Jennings ...

    $16.59 USD

  • Aztecs

    An Interpretation

    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Imperial Eyes

    Travel Writing and Transculturation

    by Mary Louise Pratt ...
    Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rolena Adorno ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Man Who Invented Fiction

    How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

    by William Egginton ...
    In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ambivalent Conquests

    Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570

    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series Book 61 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking ... Read more

    $24.59 USD