Abstract

MORA RODRIGUEZ, Luis Adrián. Politics, Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Enquiry of the Letters of Relation by Hernán Cortés. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2013, n.18, pp.137-153. ISSN 1794-2489.

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 the age of the "discovery" and the conquest of America.

Keywords : Hernán Cortés; empire; imperialism; decolonial tho.

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