作品简介
印第安帝国的皇帝真的一见到征服者就俯首称臣?
印第安战士真的是一群崇尚活人祭祀、茹毛饮血的野蛮人吗?
西班牙人征服美洲的过程中,当地原住民有没有打过胜仗?
为什么皇帝被杀后,人数众多的印第安人没有反抗?
印第安文明之所以消亡,只是因为西班牙人的军事侵略吗?
知名历史学家、美国民族史学会前主席马修·雷斯托尔,从印第安文明遗迹、原住民手抄本、征服者口述记录等浩如烟海的资料中,发掘那些不为人知的历史细节,一字一句解读每一则史料背后的深意,书写了这本囊括历代美洲史研究精华的大作。
翻开本书,从征服者与原住民初次会面开始,看见西班牙征服美洲的历史全貌。
[英]马修·雷斯托尔
美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学拉丁美洲史和人类学教授。
马修·雷斯托尔是一位民族史学家,也是一位研究美洲的征服、殖民和非洲移民的学者,曾任美国民族史学会主席。
代表作有《西班牙征服的七个神话》《玛雅世界》等。
Introduction of works
Did the emperor of the Indian Empire really bow at the sight of a conqueror?
Were the Indian warriors really a group of savages who worshipped human sacrifice and drank blood?
During the Spanish conquest of the Americas, did the natives win any battles?
Why did the large number of Indians not fight back after the emperor was killed?
Did the Indian civilization die out only because of the Spanish military invasion?
Renowned historian and former president of the American Ethnohistorical Society Matthew Restole, from the remains of Indian civilization, indigenous manuscripts, conqueror oral records and other vast materials, excavating those unknown historical details, word by word to interpret the meaning behind each historical material, wrote this book includes the essence of American history research.
Open this book and see the full history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, beginning with the first meeting between the conquistadors and the natives.
Matthew Restall
Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University.
Matthew Restall is an ethnohistorian, a scholar of conquest, colonization, and African migration in the Americas, and a past president of the American Ethnohistorical Society.
His works include Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and the Mayan World.