Ambivalent Conquests - Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570 - Inga Clendinnen - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2003 - Engelsk -

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Both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes.