Ronald Wright

LRC Contributor

Ronald Wright’s Stolen Continents: Conquest and Resistance in the Americas, originally published in 1992, was recently reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. His other books include the Massey Lectures A Short History of Progress (House of Anansi, 2004) and the novel A Scientific Romance (Knopf, 1997). His latest novel, The Gold Eaters (Penguin, 2015), is set during the Spanish invasion of Peru. Visit

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