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.