Discursos Legitimadores de la conquista y la colonización de América

This book brings together the contributions of a group of specialists from fields ranging from Anthropology, History, the History of political ideas and Philosophy, to analyze what was different and similar between the conquest and colonization of southern Mexico. the American continent, to which a premodern, even medieval, and committed to a crusade Catholicism was attributed, and that of the north, modern, based on freedom of conscience and based on commercial patterns. The study of the legitimizing philosophical and political discourses of both processes is the basis of this analysis, which aims to break with myths and topics forged over the centuries.