Table of Contents:
  • A handful of adventurers: the myth of exceptional men
  • Neither paid nor forced: the myth of the king's army
  • Invisible warriors: the myth of the white conquistador
  • Under the lordship of the king: the myth of completion
  • The lost words of La Malinche: the myth of (mis)communication
  • The Indians are coming to an end: the myth of native desolation
  • Apes and men: the myth of superiority.