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The Essential Diaz: Selections from The Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Díaz Del Castillo
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Description for The Essential Diaz: Selections from The Conquest of New Spain
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 414.
Ideally suited for use in swift-moving surveys of World, Atlantic, and Latin American history, this abridgment of Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke's 2012 translation of the True History provides key excerpts from Diaz's text and concise summaries of omitted passages. Included in this edition is a new preface outlining the social, economic, and political forces that motivated the European discovery of the New World.
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781624660030
SKU
V9781624660030
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About Bernal Díaz Del Castillo
Janet Burke is Associate Dean in Barrett, the Honors College, and Lincoln Fellow for Ethics and Latin American Intellectual History in the Lincoln Center for Ethics, at Arizona State University. Ted Humphrey is President’s Professor, Barrett Professor, and Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Latin American Intellectual History at Arizona State University.
Reviews for The Essential Diaz: Selections from The Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Díazs True History of the Conquest of New Spain, the chronicle of an 'ordinary' soldier in Hernando Cortéss army, is the only complete account (other than Cortéss own) that we have of the Spanish conquest of ancient Mexico. It makes for consistently fascinating reading, and Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke have provided the best, and the most engaging, translation ... Read more