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William H. Prescott

After an extensive period of study, during which he sporadically contributed to academic journals, Prescott specialized in late Renaissance Spain and the early Spanish Empire. His works on the subject, ''The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic'' (1837), ''The History of the Conquest of Mexico'' (1843), ''A History of the Conquest of Peru'' (1847) and the unfinished ''History of the Reign of Phillip II'' (1856–1858) have become classic works in the field, and have had a great impact on the study of both Spain and Mesoamerica. During his lifetime, he was upheld as one of the greatest living American intellectuals, and knew personally many of the leading political figures of the day, in both the United States and Britain. Prescott has become one of the most widely translated American historians, and was an important figure in the development of history as a rigorous academic discipline.
Historians admire Prescott for his exhaustive, careful, and systematic use of archives, his accurate recreation of sequences of events, his balanced judgments and his lively writing style. He was primarily focused on political and military affairs, largely ignoring economic, social, intellectual, and cultural forces that in recent decades historians have focused on. Instead, he wrote narrative history, subsuming unstated causal forces in his driving storyline. Provided by Wikipedia
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History of the Conquest of Peru by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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History of the Conquest of Peru With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 1/4 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 2/4 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 3/4 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 4/4 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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