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Conquistador Voices
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
- De: Kevin H. Siepel
- Narrado por: Kevin H Siepel
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 58
The Spanish Conquest: What really happened? If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this audiobook for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Conquistador Voices, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors. Somewhat in the manner of a modern film documentary, it treats the so-called conquest as an historical event that’s worth learning about for its own sake, with most of the moralizing left to the listener.
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The Misleading Title is the Most Forgivable Part..
- De Tyler Sanders en 12-19-22
- Conquistador Voices
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
- De: Kevin H. Siepel
- Narrado por: Kevin H Siepel
The Misleading Title is the Most Forgivable Part..
Revisado: 12-19-22
While indeed a collection of contemporary accounts from Conquistadors, Mr. Siepel it seems cannot help himself from interjecting periodically to brow beat the reader (or listener) with semi-political dogma about the "evil of the European explorers". Whatever the true intention of the author in writing such a book, I will refrain from speculating on, as the political leaning or religious beliefs of any Historical Authors should be irrelevant in regards to recounting, collecting, and compiling information from the past and presenting it in a format that provides a fuller or richer understanding of the events described. However, this book isn't that. It masquerades as History, but I would not fault anyone who accused it of being closer to flat-out propaganda. There are multiple instances in which the Author mistakenly (or perhaps intentionally) provides verifiably false narratives in order to reinforce the ideas or beliefs in which he is positing or he himself holds. Simply change the ink color to red for the passages of the book written by Mr. Siepel and you will have something akin to a bible. One in which the author deems white Europeans as a Devil figure, and imagines himself (probably also white) as the moral logos or supreme.
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