J. Michael Francis is Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies and Professor of History at the University of South Florida - St. Petersburg

“To add to the tragic brutalities of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico and Pizarro’s conquest of Peru, J. Michael Francis now offers us an admirable reconstruction of the hitherto unexplored events that took place to the east of Peru. His Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest is the result of an exhaustive exploration of Sevillian archives. Accompanied by a lively introduction, and by commentaries and annotations that are as reliable as they are readable, the book poses the intriguing question of why an exploration that led more Spaniards into Colombia than Cortés led into Mexico, or Pizarro into Peru, should have remained almost completely unknown.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

• ContentsList of Maps and TablesForewordPreface and Acknowledgments1.Introduction: The Other Andean Conquest2. Three Capitulaciones: Don Pedro Fernández de Lugo and the Governorship of Santa Marta3. By Land and by Sea: From Santa Marta to La Tora4.Into the Highlands: From La Tora to Muisca Territory5.Treasure, Torture, and the Licenciado’s ReturnBibliography Index

J. Michael Francis is Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies and Professor of History at the University of South Florida - St. Petersburg

“To add to the tragic brutalities of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico and Pizarro’s conquest of Peru, J. Michael Francis now offers us an admirable reconstruction of the hitherto unexplored events that took place to the east of Peru. His Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest is the result of an exhaustive exploration of Sevillian archives. Accompanied by a lively introduction, and by commentaries and annotations that are as reliable as they are readable, the book poses the intriguing question of why an exploration that led more Spaniards into Colombia than Cortés led into Mexico, or Pizarro into Peru, should have remained almost completely unknown.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

• ContentsList of Maps and TablesForewordPreface and Acknowledgments1.Introduction: The Other Andean Conquest2. Three Capitulaciones: Don Pedro Fernández de Lugo and the Governorship of Santa Marta3. By Land and by Sea: From Santa Marta to La Tora4.Into the Highlands: From La Tora to Muisca Territory5.Treasure, Torture, and the Licenciado’s ReturnBibliography Index

J. Michael Francis is Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies and Professor of History at the University of South Florida - St. Petersburg

“To add to the tragic brutalities of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico and Pizarro’s conquest of Peru, J. Michael Francis now offers us an admirable reconstruction of the hitherto unexplored events that took place to the east of Peru. His Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest is the result of an exhaustive exploration of Sevillian archives. Accompanied by a lively introduction, and by commentaries and annotations that are as reliable as they are readable, the book poses the intriguing question of why an exploration that led more Spaniards into Colombia than Cortés led into Mexico, or Pizarro into Peru, should have remained almost completely unknown.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

• ContentsList of Maps and TablesForewordPreface and Acknowledgments1.Introduction: The Other Andean Conquest2. Three Capitulaciones: Don Pedro Fernández de Lugo and the Governorship of Santa Marta3. By Land and by Sea: From Santa Marta to La Tora4.Into the Highlands: From La Tora to Muisca Territory5.Treasure, Torture, and the Licenciado’s ReturnBibliography Index