History of the Conquest of Mexico
Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Mexico |
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Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
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Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Mexico |
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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 | : 568 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Incas |
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Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
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Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Alan Knight |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2002-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521891950 |
The first in a three-volume history, covering the period 25,000 BC to the sixteenth century.
Author | : James Lockhart |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520078758 |
Historians are concerned today that the Spaniards' early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas should be balanced with accounts from the Indian perspective. We People Here reflects that concern, bringing together important and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl language in sixteenth-century Mexico. James Lockhart's superior translation combines contemporary English with the most up-to-date, nuanced understanding of Nahuatl grammar and meaning. The foremost Nahuatl conquest account is Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. In this monumental work, Fray Bernardino de Sahag�n commissioned Nahuas to collect and record in their own language accounts of the conquest of Mexico; he then added a parallel Spanish account that is part summary, part elaboration of the Nahuatl. Now, for the first time, the Nahuatl and Spanish texts are together in one volume with en face English translations and reproductions of the copious illustrations from the Codex. Also included are five other Nahua conquest texts. Lockhart's introduction discusses each one individually, placing the narratives in context.
Author | : Hugh Thomas |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439127255 |
Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.
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 H. Prescott |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2023-09-23 |
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ISBN | : 3368192299 |
Author | : R. Conrad Stein |
Publisher | : Morgan Reynolds Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 9781599350547 |
Since Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec empire in the sixteenth century, Mexico had been ruled by the kingdom of Spain. They treated the once mighty land as a colony, exploiting its people and tightly controlling the affairs of the nation to keep it from growing strong. Any talk of freedom or revolution was strictly barred by law. But as the philosophical movement called the Enlightenment swept through Europe, and revolutions toppled oppressive monarchies in America and France, the people of Mexico began to think of driving out the Spanish and establishing their own country as a very real possibility. It was a priest from a distant and tiny parish named Father Manuel Hidalgo who started Mexico's War of Independence, leading an ever-growing army of Mexican people against the massive force of the Spanish army. It was Jose Maria Morelos, another priest and a onetime student of Hidalgo, who took up the reins of the revolution when Hidalgo could no longer lead the people. The Spanish were not about to give up their prized colony without a fight though, and they retaliated against the revolutionaries with brutal viciousness. Before long, all of Mexico was wrapped in a war that would decide the future of two nations. Book jacket.