Description
In what is both a specific examine of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the figuring out of European domination and native resistance all over the colonial world, Inga Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and an increasing number of divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. In Ambivalent Conquests Clendinnen penetrates the thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction in their assessment of the intruders. This new edition accommodates a preface by the writer where she reflects upon the book’s contribution up to now fifteen years. Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus scholar, LaTrobe University, Australia. Her books come with the acclaimed Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999), named a Highest Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, and Aztec: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1995), and Tiger’s Eye: A Memoir (Scribner, 2001).