Key books (Readings)
Peter Bakewell, History of Latin America: c. 1450 to the present (Blackwell, 2004)
Hugh Thomas, Rivers of Gold. The Rise of the Spanish Empire, 1490-1522 (Phoenix, Orion, 2004)
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin, 1963)
John Hemming, The Conquest of the Incas (Penguin, 1970)