Searching for Golden Empires: Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America

by William K. Hartmann

Book Overview

This lively book recounts the explorations of the first generations of Spanish conquistadors and their Native allies. Author William K. Hartmann brings readers along as the explorers probe from Cuba to the Aztec capital of Mexico City, and then northward through the borderlands to New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, southern California, and as far as Kansas. Characters include Hernan Cortés, the conqueror; the Aztec ruler Motezuma; Francisco Vázquez de...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816530874
• ISBN13: 9780816530878
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"