The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589

ISBN-13: 9780804719773 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 332 str.

Beatriz Pastor Bodmer; Beatriz P. Bodmer; Lydia L. Hunt

Opis

Focusing on certain key firsthand narratives of the discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World, the authors view various journals, letters, and other documents not merely as narratives of facts and events but as literary expressions of the dynamics of the writer's experience.