Sickness of the Heart: Along the Route of Conquest as Told by the Participants (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798504363417)

Sickness of the Heart takes readers along the route of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes from Spain to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. With the use of modern-day photos of key locations and entries by the primary participants, the story of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire is given a fresh, vibrant, and new perspective. Launched to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, Sickness of the Heart is presented in a manicured, but accessible manner by award-winning historian Erik J. Wright. Drawing upon inspiration from Michael Wood's BBC series Conquistadors to professor Matthew Restall's academic studies of the collision of cultures, Sickness of the Heart is designed to be an introduction to the story of conquest while allowing readers to gain a firm understanding of the places, motivations, and personalities that wrought the destruction of a great Mesoamerican empire.

Author: Erik Jeffrey Wright
ISBN-13: 9798504363417
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2021
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d