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Join us for a history book club. Whether you’re a history buff or just interested in the conversation, come share your perspective.
For each monthly meet-up, we'll discuss the selected book over drinks and/or food. If you didn't have time to read the book in its entirety, or at all, you're still welcome to join. Each event description will include a lecture by the author, interview, or book preview to give you context if you haven’t had time to read the book.
Upcoming events
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Book Discussion - Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Location not specified yetFor our next meeting, we’ll be discussing Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Restall challenges the long-standing narrative that a handful of superior Spaniards effortlessly toppled massive New World empires.
Length: 217 pages | ~7 hrs audiobook
Book Description
The story of the Spanish Conquest is often told as a series of miracles led by "exceptional" men like Cortés and Pizarro, but Matthew Restall argues that these stories are largely self-serving fabrications. By weaving together Spanish and Indigenous sources, Restall exposes how the success of the conquistadors actually rested on tens of thousands of Indigenous allies, the devastating impact of disease, and the presence of Black conquistadors who have been erased from the history books. It is a lean, provocative "myth-busting" session that reframes the Conquest not as a sudden European triumph, but as a complex, messy, and prolonged process of political negotiation and survival.
10 attendees
Past events
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