The Conquest of Mexico
Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Hickling Prescott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 1995-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0671511041 |
An account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Mexican empire under the onslaughts of Cortes' conquistadores.
Author | : Hugh Thomas |
Publisher | : Harvill Press |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2004-11 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 9781844137435 |
Hugh Thomas' account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Aztec empire under the onslaughts of Cort's' conquistadors is one of the great historical works of our times. A thrilling and sweeping narrative, it also bristles with moral and political issues. After setting out from Spain - against explicit instructions - in 1519, some 500 conquistadors destroyed their ships and fought their way towards the capital of the greatest empire of the New World. When they finally reached Tenochtitlan, the huge city on lake Texcoco, they were given a courtly welcome by Montezuma, who believed them to be gods. Their later abduction of the emperor, their withdrawl and the final destruction of the city make the Conquest one of the most enthralling and tragic episodes in world history.
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.
Author | : James Lockhart |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299141632 |
When Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 was published in 1968, it was acclaimed as an innovative study of the early Spanish presence in Peru. It has since become a classic of the literature in Spanish American social history, important in helping to introduce career-pattern history to the field and notable for its broad yet intimate picture of the functioning of an entire society. In this second edition, James Lockhart provides a new conclusion and preface, updated terminology, and additional footnotes.
Author | : W. H. Prescott |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2017-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780260278203 |
Excerpt from The Conquest of Mexico, Vol. 1 From these three magnificent collections, the re sult of half a century's careful researches, I have Obtained a mass of unpublished documents, relat ing to the Conquest and Settlement of Mexico and of Peru, comprising altogether about eight thou sand folio pages. They consist of instructions of the Court, military and private journals, corres pondence of the great actors in the scenes, legal instruments, contemporary chronicles, and the like, drawn from all the principal places in the exten sive colonial empire of Spain, as well as from the public archives in the Peninsula. 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 | : Ross Hassig |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806137933 |
What role did indigenous peoples play in the Spanish conquest of Mexico? Ross Hassig explores this question in Mexico and the Spanish Conquest by incorporating primary accounts from the Indians of Mexico and revisiting the events of the conquest against the backdrop of the Aztec empire, the culture and politics of Mesoamerica, and the military dynamics of both sides. He analyzes the weapons, tactics, and strategies employed by both the Indians and the Spaniards, and concludes that the conquest was less a Spanish victory than it was a victory of Indians over other Indians, which the Spaniards were able to exploit to their own advantage. In this second edition of his classic work, Hassig incorporates new research in the same concise manner that made the original edition so popular and provides further explanations of the actions and motivations of Cortés, Moteuczoma, and other key figures. He also explores their impact on larger events and examines in greater detail Spanish military tactics and strategies.
Author | : Antonio de Solís |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781017594799 |
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