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The history of the conquest of New Spain / / by Bernal Diaz del Castillo ; edited and with an introduction by David Carrasco with additional essays by Rolena Adorno, David Carrasco, Sandra Cypess, and Karen Vieira Powers



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Autore: Diaz del Castillo Bernal <1496-1584.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The history of the conquest of New Spain / / by Bernal Diaz del Castillo ; edited and with an introduction by David Carrasco with additional essays by Rolena Adorno, David Carrasco, Sandra Cypess, and Karen Vieira Powers Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (505 p.)
Disciplina: 972/.02
Soggetto topico: Imperialism - History - 16th century
Soggetto geografico: Mexico History Conquest, 1519-1540
New Spain History 16th century
Altri autori: CarrascoDavid  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Preface; The Expedition under Cordova; The Expedition under Grijalva; The Expedition under Cortés Begins; 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 Beige 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; Torturing Guatemoc for Treasure; Zapotec Fury; Pedro de Alvarado Attacks in Guatemala; Turmoil in Chiapas; The Arrival of the Twelve Franciscans; Mexico City Becomes a Roman Circus; Maps; Bernal Díaz del Castillo; Cortés and the Sacred Ceiba; Colonial Sexuality
La Malinche as Palimpset 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
Sommario/riassunto: A new abridgment of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España.
Titolo autorizzato: The history of the conquest of New Spain  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-77251-4
9786613683281
0-8263-4288-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816984903321
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