Gruzinski is interested in the
colonisation of the Americas and
Asia, especially the colonial experiences like those
cross-cultural areas, birth of hybrid spaces and
first manifestations of
globalisation. With
Carmen Bernand, he published De l’idolâtrie : Une archéologie des sciences religieuses and two volumes of Histoire du Nouveau Monde. He is the author of Le destin brisé de l’empire aztèque, a richly illustrated
pocket book from the
collection “
Découvertes Gallimard”, which has been translated into nine languages, including English.
In 2015, he won the International Grand Prize for History at the 22nd International Congress of Historical Sciences (ICHS).[5]
Selected publications
Le destin brisé de l’empire aztèque, collection «
Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 33), série Histoire. Éditions Gallimard, 1988 (new edition in 2010)[6]
US edition – The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire, “
Abrams Discoveries” series. Harry N. Abrams, 1992
UK edition – The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire, ‘
New Horizons’ series. Thames & Hudson, 1992
Co-author with
Carmen Bernand, De l’idolâtrie : Une archéologie des sciences religieuses, collection « Philosophie Générale ». Seuil, 1988
La colonisation de l’imaginaire : Sociétés indigènes et occidentalisation dans le Mexique espagnol (XVIᵉ-XVIIIᵉ siècle), collection « Bibliothèque des Histoires ». Éditions Gallimard, 1988
Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520–1800, Stanford University Press, 1989
Co-author with Carmen Bernand, Histoire du Nouveau Monde (2 volumes), Fayard, 1991 and 1993
Painting The Conquest: The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance, Flammarion, 1992
Images at War: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019), Duke University Press, 2001
The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization, Routledge, 2002
The Eagle & the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century, Polity Press, 2014
A History of Mexico City, University of California Press, 2019[7]
^Dufay, François (1999). "Serge Gruzinski : À la conquête de l'Amérique" [Serge Gruzinski: To Conquer America]. L'Histoire (in French). Vol. 236. Paris:
Sophia Publications. pp. 28–29.