"We know about it since Christopher Columbus's second voyage, because there are thousands and thousands of documented references: the circumstances of the invasion of America were terrible, terror and extreme violence were used, but Spain is a self-conscious country and refuses to accept it," says historian and professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Antonio Espino (Córdoba, 1966), who has just published  La invasión de América. Una nueva lectura de la conquista hispana de América: una historia de violencia y destrucción [The Invasion of America. A New Reading of the Hispanic Conquest of America: A History of Violence and Destruction] (Arpa), an expanded revision of the book he published with RBA in 2013.