Book, Mechanisms of colonial conquest, Os[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. When, in 1556, the conquest of America ended, the kingdom of Spain prohibited the use of the words conquest and conquerors, since then replaced by discovery and colonists. Proposing to reopen this barely healed wound, Ruggiero Romano - 'Directeur d'études' at the 'École Pratiques des Hautes Études' in Paris - seeks a balance between official history, which tends to transform all acts of conquest into heroics, and the 'black legend' that condemns en masse the atrocities committed during the period. Based on period documents 'The Mechanisms of Colonial Conquest' objectively reveals the massacres of the natives by 'the sword, the cross and hunger', the collapse of their ancestral structure, as well as the organization of the conquerors themselves, their short-term ambitions term in constant conflict with the laws of the metropolis. An ambiguous starting point for a reality that is still unbalanced today, Editora Perspectiva brings here a fundamental approach for an America to be rediscovered.