Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest – Updated Edition

An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic.This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and themes that were for generations debated or perpetuated without question in academic and popular circles.The 2003 edition became the foundation stone of a scholarly turn since called The New Conquest History.Each of the book's seven chapters describes one "myth," or one aspect of the Conquest that has been distorted or misrepresented, examines its roots, and explodes its fallacies and misconceptions.Using a wide array of primary and secondary sources, written in a scholarly but readable style, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest explains why Columbus did not set out to prove the world was roun