4 Quotes by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

Unless US citizens acknowledge and understand their country's imperial past, they will not be able to understand its present or future. Much of the recent and current Hispanic resettlement of parts of the United States is a consequence of empire.... Countercolonization follows colonization, and the waves of migrants always flow back like returning tides.

All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.