Not the whole picture
Oct 01, 2020
2 minutes
by Fernando Cervantes
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Allen Lane, 512 pages, £30
Fernando Cervantes has produced a veritable compendium on the Spanish conquest of the Americas, covering the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and South America. But painting a vast canvas was not the author’s only goal: he wished to resuscitate the reputation of these once admired but recently maligned men. In his
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