Prescott’s Visit to England, 1850
In the mid-nineteenth century, writes Roger Howell, the eminent historian of Spain, Mexico and Peru paid a most successful visit to the British Isles.
In the mid-nineteenth century, writes Roger Howell, the eminent historian of Spain, Mexico and Peru paid a most successful visit to the British Isles.
Roger Howell discovers that the Spaniards who conquered the Americas had little real understanding of the civilizations that they overthrew.