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History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott
One of America’s greatest and most highly regarded historians, William Hickling Prescott set a lofty literary standard for historical writing with his books on Spain’s emperors and explorers. Prescott avoided the dry, names-and-dates style of standard histories and instead brought the past alive, telling with drama and vigor the stories of the men who carved out an empire in the New World.
History of the Conquest of Mexico & History of the Conquest of Peru unites in one volume for the first time two of Prescott’s best known and most powerful works. The books detail with accuracy and emotional resonance the arrival of Spain’s conquerors to Mexico and Peru, and the wars of conquest whose outcomes remain the cause of contention even in the present day.
Using a wealth of documentation as raw material, Prescott weaves a heroic and tragic epic of Spain’s efforts to dominate Central and South America.
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