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Extending Conquest History: Lesser-Known Events and the Fringes of European Conquest

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Death in the Snow. Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru. By W. George Lovell. Montreal, Kingston (ON): McGill, Queen´s University Press, 2022.

This Incurable Evil: Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687. By Eugene C. Berger. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2023.

German Conquistadors in Venezuela: The Welsers´ Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory. By Giovanna Montenegro. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2024

Teresa Vergara
Affiliation:
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru Lima, Peru teresa.vergara@pucp.edu.pe
Francisco Quiroz
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima, Peru fquirozc@unmsm.edu.pe

Extract

Certain characters and their roles in the European conquest of America are well known: Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and a few others. Likewise, scholarly interest in the conquest has focused on the centers of great political, economic, and cultural entities such as the Aztec Empire in Mesoamerica and the Inca Empire in the Central Andes.

Type
Review Essay
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Academy of American Franciscan History

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Footnotes

With this issue, the editors of The Americas introduce the Review Essay. These essays allow invited scholars the space and latitude to discuss two or more recently published works on a selected topic. Reviewers assess the collective contributions to a field, innovative perspectives, new knowledge, range of sources, and methods of interpretation.

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