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Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918) has 4 books in the BigBookHub catalogue: History of Central America, Volume 2, 1530-1800: The Work…, History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501-1530: The Work…, History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521 and The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild….
Books by Hubert Howe Bancroft
History of Central America, Volume 2, 1530-1800: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 7
Bancroft synthesizes colonial records, indigenous accounts, and Spanish documents to trace Central America's transformation across three centuries of conquest, rebellion, and cultural collision. His encyclopedic approach captures the region's staggering complexity in ways that echo through contemporary debates about colonialism and resistance.
History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501-1530: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 6
Bancroft's meticulously researched history reconstructs the first three decades of Spanish colonial Central America, documenting indigenous societies, conquest narratives, and colonial administration through primary sources and scholarly synthesis. It's a foundational work recovering a period deliberately obscured by nationalist mythologies.
History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521
The first volume of a history of Mexico covering 1516 to 1521, as Spanish explorers arrive and conflict with Indigenous civilizations begins. The preface discusses the author's research, the record-keeping behind it and Cortes's conquest.
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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1
The first volume of an ethnological survey of the native peoples of the Pacific States, a region reaching from Alaska down to Darien and taking in Mexico and Central America. This volume covers the wild tribes.