Conquest of Mexico
Author | : William H. Prescott |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434405850 |
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Author | : William H. Prescott |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434405850 |
Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
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Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Incas |
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Author | : William Hickling PRESCOTT |
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Mexico |
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Author | : Antonio de Solís |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
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ISBN | : 9781017594799 |
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Author | : Sylvia A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1467703826 |
Can the conquest of one city change the world? In 1519, two powerful empires - Spain and Mexica (Aztec) - were hungry for expansion in central Mexico. Led by emperor Motecuzoma II, the Mexica people had subdued their native enemies and now controlled a sprawling territory with the great city of Tenochtitlán at the center. Then the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés led an attack on the Mexica empire. Although the Spaniards had horses and guns, both unknown in the Americas, the Mexica outnumbered them five hundred to one. The Spaniards had no chance of success without the help of native allies unhappy with Mexica rule. What followed was a desperate war that lasted two years, cost thousands of lives, and left Tenochtitlán in ruins. In 1521 Cortés declared Mexico a colony of New Spain. In so doing, he laid the groundwork for the expansion of European power throughout the Americas and changed the world forever. The Spanish conquest of Mexico is one of world history’s pivotal moments.
Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
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Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Mexico |
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Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1843 |
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Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
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Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Mexico |
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Author | : William H. Prescott |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2005-10-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1596052708 |
With its vivid language and bold strokes, the magnificent History of the Conquest of Peru, first published in 1847, is one of historian William Prescott's landmark works. A masterly study of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro's overthrow of the Inca Empire, this astonishing chronicle is considered a classic of Latin American history. Noted for its striking portrayal of the Spanish character, the book rings with a "fusion of courage, cruelty, pride, and gallows humor," says Darnell. "We seem to be overhearing dialogue and observing firsthand the interaction between the Spaniards as they struggle for control of an empire." He hails this as "an immensely readable history."Also available from Cosimo Classics: History of the Conquest of Mexico, Prescott's companion volume about Cort s's subjugation of the Aztecs.Historian, writer, and scholar WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT (1796-1859) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. A regular contributor to the prestigious Boston literary journal North American Review, he also authored numerous books of history, including 1837's The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, a critical and popular success in both America and Europe.
Author | : Matthew Restall |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062427288 |
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses “the Meeting”—as Restall dubs their first encounter—as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived—leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.