Stolen Continents: Conquest And Resistance In The Americas

This is the story of how five great American civilisations were invaded, colonised and suppressed by Europeans - and yet survived. Europe's discovery and conquest of the Americas is commonly told as a great saga of achievement. But such history is written by the conquerors. Ronald Wright brings us the Indian's own story - a story of plague and invasion that crippled great civilisations and killed one fifth of the human race. Following five peoples - Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois - through five centuries, Wright ranges from the Aztec view of Cortes to the eloquent testimony of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, a Maya fighting for her people's right to a place in the modern world.