Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination: The Amerindian Adventures of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith

This book by examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how Prescott’s histories inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith.