Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
- ISBN-10
- 0618492402
- ISBN-13
- 9780618492404
- Series
- Stolen Continents
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 430
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Ronald Wright
Description
Powerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great American cultures — Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois. Through their eloquent words, we relive their strange, tragic experiences — including, in a new epilogue, incidents that bring us up to the twenty-first century.
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