History of the Conquest of Mexico (Classic American Historians)

Hardcover with dust jacket. 413 pages. A dramatic narration of one of the most colorful chapters of the cultural collision that thrust Europeans into Indian America.

History

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H.

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University of Chicago Press

William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 28, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite suffering from serious visual impairment, which at times prevented him from reading or writing for himself, Prescott became one of the most eminent historians of 19th century America. He is also noted for his eidetic memory. After an extensive period of study, during which he sporadically contributed to academic journals, Prescott specialized in late Renaissance Spain and the early Spanish Empire. His works on the subject, The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (1837), The History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843), A History of the Conquest of Peru (1847) and the unfinished History of the Reign of Phillip II (1856–1858) have become classic works in the field, and have had a great impact on the study of both Spain and Mesoamerica. During his lifetime, he was upheld as one of the greatest living American intellectuals, and knew personally many of the leading political figures of the day, in both the United States and Britain. Prescott has become one of the most widely translated American historians, and was an important figure in the development of history as a rigorous academic discipline. Historians admire Prescott for his exhaustive, careful, and systematic use of archives, his accurate recreation of sequences of events, his balanced judgments and his lively writing style. He was primarily focused on political and military affairs, largely ignoring economic, social, intellectual, and cultural forces that in recent decades historians have focused on. Instead, he wrote narrative history, subsuming unstated causal forces in his driving storyline.

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History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization. and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortez

Franklin Classics

"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. "Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."

History of the Conquest of Mexico (Modern Library Classics)

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United States

Modern Library

Definitive studies of two ancient cultures, the Aztec and Inca, which were defeated by the Spanish and accounts of the subsequent conflicts and settlements

History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru (Modern Library, 29.1)

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History of the Conquest of Mexico

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The Conquest of Peru [mass_market] Prescott, William H. [Mar 01, 1961] ...

The Conquest of Peru

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Conquest of Mexico

2 volumes viewing the Mexican civilization prior to conquest and a detailed account of Cortes' discovery and residence there

Europe

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

        ="It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day.----"Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable des-tiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."

E.P.Dutton

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History of the Conquest of Mexico (Classic American Historians)

History of the Conquest of Mexico (Classic American Historians)

History of the Conquest of Mexico (Classic American Historians)

History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization. and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortez

History of the Conquest of Mexico (Modern Library Classics)

History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru (Modern Library, 29.1)

History of the Conquest of Mexico

The Conquest of Peru

Conquest of Mexico

History of the Conquest of Mexico