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Restall, Matthew (2003). Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516077-0. OCLC 51022823. Schwaller, John F. (2004). "Matthew Restall. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest". American Historical Review. 109 (4). Washington, DC: American Historical Association: 1271– 1272. doi:10.1086/530842.
Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in England, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, and Hong Kong. But he was schooled in England from the age of 8, spending ten boarding-school years first at Marsh Court in Hampshire and then at Wellington College, before going on to receive a BA degree, First Class with Honors, in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986.
Today the myth of superiority takes other forms - for example the belief that natives lost to the spaniards because they didn't have alphabetic writing, or because they didn't have guns. Its all in the book rally - I reccomend reading it.·Maunus· · ƛ · 11:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC) Where was 'racial superiority' mentioned?
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall, Oxford University Press (2003) ISBN 0-19-516077-0. The Conquest of America by Tzvetan Todorov (1996) ISBN 0-06-132095-1. The Conquistadors by Michael Wood (2002) PBS.
"Carte d'Amérique" by French cartographer Guillaume Delisle 1774 Spanish America, showing modern boundaries with the U.S.. Although the term "colonial" is contested by some scholars as being historically inaccurate, pejorative, or both, [13] [14] [15] it remains a standard term for the titles of books, articles, and scholarly journals and the like to denote the period 1492 – ca. 1825.
The first Spanish account of the conquest was written by lead conqueror Hernán Cortés, who sent a series of letters to the Spanish monarch Charles V, giving a contemporary account of the conquest from his point of view, in which he justified his actions. These were almost immediately published in Spain and later in other parts of Europe.
Myth #6: Don’t eat after 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. (or when the sun has set) “Your body doesn’t have an internal clock that yells to your cells, ‘It’s 6 p.m., time to store this food for weight ...
Restall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Matthew Restall (born 1964), British and American historian of Latin America and of pop music; Emma Restall Orr (born 1965), British neo-druid, animist, priest, poet, and author