Hernán Cortés

Politics, Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Enquiry of the Letters of Relation by Hernán Cortés

Luis Adrian Mora caellum@gmail.com Universidad de Costa Rica Abstract: This paper analyzes —through the concepts of political philosophy and decolonial thought— Hernán Cortés’ figure and Letters of relation. I intend to examine how the notions of “empire” and “imperialism” appear on Cortés’ thought and how those notions are a first sketch of modern politics in […]

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