The Land of the Montezumas
Author | : Cora Hayward Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cora Hayward Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Morris |
Publisher | : Philadelphia, Pa., Universal book and Bible house [c1914] |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert W. Johannsen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1988-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019536418X |
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.
Author | : A. J. Dipboye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Aztecs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric A. Kimmel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Traces the life of the last emperor to rule the Aztec empire in Central America before it was conquered by the Spaniards.
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 | : Cora Hayward Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2015-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781330846896 |
Excerpt from The Land of the Montezumas Months of delightful travel have at length landed our indomitable party at the borderland of the ancient realm of the Montezumas, and promise to bring us to the realization of our desire to visit a foreign land - a land far more foreign, indeed, to our Anglo-Saxon ideas and customs than any of the cultured countries of civilized Europe, and as different as the holy cities of Palestine, or as Egypt under the Ptolemies. En route we lingered long in the beautiful city of Denver, that gate-way to the marvelous mountain scenery of our American Alps, looking, as it does, on one side across the vast prairies stretching out for hundreds of miles between it and its sister cities of the East, and on the other to the rising foot-hills and proud peaks of the Rockies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Buddy Levy |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2009-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553384716 |
In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually annihilating a proud and accomplished native people is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story. In Tenochtitlán Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas and ruler of a city whose splendor equaled anything in Europe. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.