Conquistadors - Rilegato

Wood, Michael

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520230647 ISBN 13: 9780520230644

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2001

Riassunto

The author of In Search of the Dark Ages retraces the footsteps of the conquistadors, following Cortez into Mexico and Orellana into the heart of the Amazon, while grappling with the moral legacy of colonization.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Wood has worked as a journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker, and is author of several highly acclaimed books, includingDomesday (1986), In Search of the Dark Ages (1987), Legacy (1995),In Search of the Trojan War (California, 1998), and In Search of England(California, 2000). He has over sixty documentary films to his name, among themLegacy, Saddam's Killing Fields, and In the Footsteps of Alexander The Great,for which he also wrote the accompanying book.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"This is historical narrative of a very high quality. The prose is lucid, the descriptive episodes powerfully drawn. Wood describes fairly and sensitively the vast gulf that separated these Bronze Age [Aztec and Inca] cultures from the Western behemoth that overwhelmed and destroyed them, stressing in particular the near total inability of each society to comprehend the mores and values of the other."Gene Brucker, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0520230647
• ISBN 13: 9780520230644
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288