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The Conquest of America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 362–363.
Published: 01 May 1986
...David Carrasco But the boldness of conception and language with which Todorov tells this story is a very significant contribution to historians, linguists, anthropologists, and historians of religions. Only time will tell if Todorov’s semiotic approach is a reflection of the intellectual fashion...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 763–764.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Joseph F. Patrouch With this dispute over the nature of anthropological knowledge concerning long- dead non-Europeans, the “Europeans as gods” controversy returns to Todorov and the supposed symbol manipulator, Cortés. Obeyesekere and Todorov seem to fear the structures of universal...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 397–398.
Published: 01 May 1996
... into the themes of Latin American history as pursued in Germany today. Prominent among these are anticolonialism (mostly aimed at the United States), Todorov’s “other” in American contexts, and German and Austro-Hungarian interests and settlement in Latin America. Much new material on this last theme comes from...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 348–349.
Published: 01 May 1989
... by Rolena Adorno and Tzvetan Todorov underscore the claims of critical theorists for their right to investigate texts of all types. These scholars have expanded not only our view of the Latin American colony, but also the historian’s purview by stressing the importance of a close reading of sources...
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Christophe Colomb et la découverte de l’Amérique: réalités, imaginaire, et réinterprétations
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 May 1996
... was termed by some to be a polemic. It may be even more significant and revealing of the state of continental Columbus scholarship that the most frequently cited author is Tzvetan Todorov, the creator of “the Other.” It should be stated at the outset that this reviewer earned a doctorate in history...
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 370–371.
Published: 01 May 2007
... in the snares of persistent conquest-era myths: for example, Tzvetan Todorov, who like sixteenth-century writers before him could believe that writing might account for Spanish success in the Americas. This book takes on the persistent myths of the conquest in a wide-ranging commentary, incorporating what...
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Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 350–352.
Published: 01 May 2015
... assume the Seven Cities of Cíbola to be a European myth when it actually springs from a commonplace in Mesoamerican origin myths, the seven caves of Chicomóstoc from which emerged seven foundational tribes. Even when scholars like Tzvetan Todorov finally broke through the veil of myth to identify...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 261–262.
Published: 01 May 1995
... reprobables. Pierre Ragon pretende en realidad explicar lo que bien podemos llamar “la visión de los vencedores.” El autor menciona con todo énfasis en las páginas iniciales el enfoque de Todorov—el descubrimiento de una cultura por otra—y la obra de Baudot sobre los primeros cronistas de México. De las...
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Mythic Origins: Caramuru and the Founding of Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (4): 783–811.
Published: 01 November 2000
...). For an excellent analysis of the theme, see Edmundo O’Gorman, A Invenção da América (São Paulo: Unesp, 1992); and Tzvetan Todorov, A conquista da América: A questão do outro (São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1983). For a comparison of the theme set in the North American West, see Roderick Nash, Wilderness...
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Thevet Revisits Guanabara
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (4): 753–781.
Published: 01 November 2000
... on Montaigne’s relativism informs Stephen Greenblatt’s Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990); and Tzvetan Todorov, Les morales de l’histoire (Paris: Grasset, 1991). Neither builds on the political stakes of the essay. The reception of the anti-Iberian...
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Motecuzoma Xocoyotl, Hernán Cortés, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo: The Construction of an Arrest
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 149–183.
Published: 01 May 1995
.... 26 Jon Vincent Blake, “Hernán Cortés y la conquista intelectual de América,” Romance Notes 16:3 (Spring 1975), 764–69. 27 Cortés, Letters from Mexico , 67, 68, 158, 156, 146, 125, 143. 28 Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other , trans. from the French...
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Author and Title Index
Open Access
Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (1): 1–153.
Published: 01 February 1996
..., reviewed, 66:596-97 Conquest of America, The, by Tzvetan Todorov, trans, by Richard Howard, reviewed, 66:362-63 Conquest of Michoacan, The: The Spanish Domination of the Tarascan Kingdom in Western Mexico, 1521-1530, by J. Benedict Warren, reviewed, 66:371-72 Conquest of New Spain. 1585 Revision...
