Format:
1 online resource (322 pages)
ISBN:
9780826342881
Content:
A new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España.
Content:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Dream of the Conquistador and a Book of Desire and Destruction -- Preface -- The Expedition under Córdova -- The Expedition under Grijalva -- Expedition under Cortés Begins: Intrigues in Cuba -- Cortés Finds an Interpreter -- Cortés Attacks the Ceiba Tree -- Enter Doña Marina -- Signs of Empire -- Spaniards Viewed as Gods -- Cortés Destroys the Ships -- War in Tlaxcala -- The Spaniards' Plea for Peace and Alliance -- Ambassadors from Montezuma Arrive -- Baptizing Tlaxcalan Women -- The Massacre at Cholula -- The March to Mexico -- Arrival in the Splendid City of Tenochtitlan -- Montezuma in Captivity -- Games with Montezuma -- Cortés Struggles with Narváez -- Spanish Massacre of the Dancers -- Spanish Defeat and the Noche Triste -- The Return to the Valley and the Alliance with Texcoco -- The Siege Begins from Texcoco -- Indian Allies and Spanish Disasters -- Dismal Drums and Human Sacrifices -- The Fall of Mexico and the Surrender of Guatemoc -- The City as a Wasteland: Taking Women -- Torturing Guatemoc for Treasure: Malicious Graffiti -- Zapotec Fury -- Pedro de Alvarado Attacks in Guatemala -- Turmoil in Chiapas -- The Arrival of the Twelve Franciscans -- Mexico City Becomes a Roman Circus -- Maps -- Essays -- Bernal Díaz del Castillo: Soldier, Eyewitness, Polemicist -- Cortés and the Sacred Ceiba: A Maya Axis Mundi -- Colonial Sexuality: Of Women, Men, and Mestizaje -- La Malinche as Palimpsest II -- The Exaggerations of Human Sacrifice -- Tenochtitlan as a Political Capital and World Symbol -- Human Sacrifice/Debt Payments from the Aztec Point of View -- Spaniards as Gods: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826342874
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780826342874
Language:
English
Keywords:
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1104392
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