Reprint of the work originally published by Cornell University Press in 1976. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

After more than fifty years, Cycles of Conquest is still one of the best syntheses of more than four centuries of conquest, colonization, and resistance ever pu

This is one of those rare books whose influence will grow rather than diminish with the years. Icon and Idea is destined to take its place beside Ernst Cassirer