CHAPTER 9: Conquest Utopias and dystopias as historical paradigm and parable: New World myth, Old World reception: 9.1 Plato's vs. More's model: Historical rise/fall of empires.

Section 1 of chapter 9 of the book "Imperial Histories From Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest and Conquest" is presented. It explores the utopian and dystopian discourse, which is a kind of textuality that links the ethical critique, political propaganda, and cultural myth...

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Published in:	Imperial Histories from Alfonso X to Inca Garcilaso: Revisionist Myths of Reconquest & Conquest pp. 118 - 124
Main Author:	González-Casanovas, Roberto J.
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	Digitalia Publishing Corp. 1997
Subjects:	History of imperialism Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616 Reign of Alfonso X, Castile, Spain, 1252-1284 Utopias Dystopias More, Thomas, 1565-1625 Spain
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