- Paperback: 832 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico; New edition edition (6 Oct 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712660798
- ISBN-13: 978-0712660792
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 813,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is an account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Mexican empire beneath the onslaught of Cortez's conquistadors. It considers the moral and political issues involved in this extraordinary clash of cultures and battle of wills.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
To those who have a passing interest in Mexico and the Spanish conquest, this book cannot be too highly recommended. It is amazingly thorough, is based on incredibly wide-ranging research, and is written with an elegance and grace which belies the extraordinary welter of facts through which Thomas has to sift.
The character and personalities of all the various players come to the fore, and Thomas also does an excellent job of conveying the atmosphere of those times, as well as in adding little details like the weather and the scenery to give a real sense of what those terrible years were like.
In short, this is just a brilliant book - balanced, authoritative, erudite, and surprisingly moving - if you have any interest in Mexico you should read it. It is probably the best work of history that I have read.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Thomas is an extraordinairily accesible historian.
Although a little slow in the first two chapters, which Thomas uses to set out the background of the Spaniards in Cuba & Hispaniola, this is a brilliant account of the conquest of the Aztecs by Hernan Cortes. Thomas' research is complete and he does an excellent job of explaining how so few subjugated so many. Thomas makes a great job of weeding out the chaff from the other accounts you might be familiar with.
Rich with relevant context (politics back in Spain, the economics of the Carribean, legal issues to do with the classification of the native indians) this account is probably the best ever written. It makes an excellent story, even though the approach is thorough and absolutely non-fictional.
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Like all of Hugh Thomas's books it is rich in details and anecdotes. It also has the merit of being, in what I believe, quite objective in treating some parts of history which are not free of some polemic. The book is long and well documented but enjoyable if you are enthusiastic of history. I did miss some more details of the pre-Columbian history, but I guess that's not the main subject of the book.
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