Book · 1843 · Nonfiction

History of the Conquest of Mexico

Name: History of the Conquest of Mexico
Author: William H. Prescott

Modern Library (Penguin Random House) · 1005 pages

★ 5.8 editorial score

Cortés lands with six hundred men and topples an empire of millions. Prescott, half-blind and never in Mexico or Spain, told it so vividly historians still pry the conquest from his version.

Genre

History Military history

Subject

Conquest Pre-Colombian society Colonialism

Setting

Mexico City

Time

1843Depicts 16th century

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