conquest

The discovery and conquest of the New World profoundly altered ecological and human balances. Such alterations had been occurring for ...

The history of America begins with a clash of two cultures that were not merely dissimilar, but incompatible: The values ...

THE SPECTACULAR RISE IN THE POPULATION spectacular decline in the population of Native Americans. and disease and exploitation do not ...

The steam railway I rode out of Lima, zig-zagged up the steep western slopes of the Andes and stopped at ...

When Christopher Columbus first saw the island of Hispaniola, he was awed by its lavishly wood mountains. “All are most ...

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Callicoatl sailed across the ocean in three Aztec boats and found a new conti- nent, a ...

NOT ALL THE IMPORTATIONS OFFAUNA WERE intentional. The Iberian undoubtedly imported doz- ens, even hundreds, of kinds of insects and ...

Our memory is like a broken mirror. It does not reflect the world as it was, but our fragmented, partial, ...