The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

1992 Harper Perennial trade paperback, 9th printing. Tzvetan Todorov (Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps). A fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America, The Conquest of America has become a classic in its field. It offers an original interpretation of the discovery of America by Columbus and of the subsequent conquest, colonization, and destruction of Mexico and the Caribbean by the Spaniards at the beginning of the modern era. - Amazon