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"Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortés and the Conquest of MexicoAuthor(s): Inga ClendinnenSource: Representations, No. 33, Special Issue: The New World (Winter, 1991), pp. 65-100Published by: University of California PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2928758Accessed: 26/05/2009 17:25
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