TY  - GEN
T1  - Seven myths of the Spanish conquest
A1  - Restall, Matthew, 1964-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm57137229
AB  - 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, Cortes, 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.
OP  - 218
CN  - F1230 .R47 2003eb
SN  - 9780198036432
SN  - 0198036434
SN  - 9781280503184
SN  - 1280503181
SN  - 9781602565234
SN  - 1602565236
SN  - 9780195184624
SN  - 0195184629
SN  - 9786610503186
SN  - 6610503184
SN  - 9780195176117
SN  - 0195176111
SN  - 9780195160772
SN  - 0195160770
KW  - Lateinamerika
KW  - Mexico : History : Conquest, 1519-1540 : Historiography.
KW  - Spaniards : America : Historiography.
KW  - Latin America : History : Errors, inventions, etc.
KW  - Myth.
KW  - Mexico : History : Conquest, 1519-1540.
KW  - Espagnols : Amérique : Historiographie.
KW  - Mythe.
KW  - Mexique : Histoire : 1519-1540 (Conquête)
KW  - Amérique latine : Histoire : Erreurs, inventions, etc.
KW  - Mexique : Histoire : 1519-1540 (Conquête) : Historiographie.
KW  - myths.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Myth
KW  - Spaniards : Historiography
KW  - America
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Tradition
KW  - Entdeckung
KW  - Geschichtsschreibung
KW  - Amerika
KW  - Eroberung
KW  - Mythos
KW  - Veroveringen.
KW  - Spanjaarden.
KW  - Mythevorming.
KW  - Geschiedschrijving.
KW  - História da américa.
KW  - História latino-americana.
KW  - Colonização (historiografia) : América.
KW  - Espanhóis (historiografia) : América.
KW  - 1519-1540
KW  - History
ER  -