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“... ended a world, or consigned that world to the devious and subterranean life it is seen to live in Serge Gruzinski’s book. Cortés left Cuba in November 1518. By June 1519 he had founded a city on the Mexican coast, La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. The plaza was designed, building begun, stocks set up already, ‘a reminder’, as Thomas nicely ...”

“... André Breton proclaimed the whole country to be surrealist. More recently the cultural critic Serge Gruzinski has argued for its essentially peripheral, hybrid and thus Post-Modern nature. Here, the paradoxes of making a book about how someone’s reality is like a book – of a genre questionably assumed to reproduce reality – erupt on the first ...”

“... from Kamen’s bibliography which, given his enormous influence, is difficult to account for) or Serge Gruzinski’s writings on mestisaje (also absent) which depict the Empire as not only multinational but also multiracial, his claims appear a great deal more modest. Kamen’s end-dates are familiar ones: 1492 was the year of the final collapse of the ...”