(Paperback)

By exploring Englands fanatical consumption of the so-calledbooks of the braveconquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.

(Hardback)

By exploring Englands fanatical consumption of the so-calledbooks of the braveconquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.