Culua

Author : Samantha Wood
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1863253653

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Culua by Samantha Wood Pdf

One of Samantha Wood's earliest childhood memories is of her grandfather giving her a wobbly rubber map of Mexico that pulled apart like a jigsaw puzzle and telling her the story of the nomadic Culúa-Mexica who became known as the Aztecs. Suddenly the wanderers were a people with a new identity, a home ...Like her ancestors, Samantha yearns to find a place she can call home. Raised on the enticing glimpses of a dark and magical land conjured up by her Mexican mother's bedtime stories what begins as a visit to her enigmatic grandmother becomes a quest to find out what it means to be Mexican. Samantha's transformation to Samantita isn't quite so simple. Sometimes much more than words get lost in the translation. But as she learns to embrace México verdadero - the real Mexico - she discovers a people who give new meaning to larger than life, the fabulous strong women who rule the roost, the colourful macho men who think they do, and the invincible bonds between family, food and the spirit world. Always an outsider, this nomad at last feels she has come home.

Author : Hernan Cortes,Hernán Cortés
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300090949

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Letters from Mexico by Hernan Cortes,Hernán Cortés Pdf

Written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. The two introductions set the letters in context.

Author : Samantha Wood
Publisher : Magpie Tree Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780995442115

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Culua: My Other Life in Mexico by Samantha Wood Pdf

One of Samantha Wood's earliest childhood memories is of her grandfather giving her a wobbly rubber map of Mexico that pulled apart like a jigsaw puzzle. He told her of the nomadic Culua-Mexica, who built a great empire in the valley of Mexico and became known as the Aztecs. Suddenly, the wanderers were a people with a new identity, a home... Like her ancestors, Samantha yearns to find a place she can call home. Raised on the enticing glimpses of a dark and magical land conjured up by her Mexican mother's bedtime stories - a land oozing Latin rhythms, full of passion and fire, from bullfights to family feuds and bloody revolutions, roasted iguana and beans, to sugar skeletons - what begins as a visit to her enigmatic grandmother becomes a quest to find out what it means to be Mexican. But as she learns to embrace Mexico verdadero - the real Mexico - she discovers a people who give a new meaning to larger than life, the fabulous strong women who rule the roost, the colourful macho men who think they do, and the invincible bonds between family, food, and the spirit world. Always an outside, this nomad at last feels she has come home.

Author : Burr Cartwright Brundage
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292762381

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A Rain of Darts by Burr Cartwright Brundage Pdf

This book was the first serious scholarly attempt in nearly a century to put in narrative form the exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire. Although many native sources, often in translations with scholarly annotations. became available in the twentieth century, the corpus of this material was scattered and uncoordinated. Burr Cartwright Brundage has utilized these sources to produce a consecutive narrative that portrays direction and purpose in the evolution of the Aztec empire. A Rain of Darts is the first one-volume history of the Mexica, historically the most important of the Aztec peoples. The focus of the narrative is on the political state produced by the Mexica during their stormy history. The eleven Mexica reigns that preceded the Spanish Conquest are investigated, their triumphs and errors explained, and the lives of their great leaders illuminated where the sources allow. The narrative opens with the first appearance of the Mexica out of the arid north; it details their aimless wandering, the founding of the city of Mexico in the waters of Lake Tezcoco, their desperate struggle for independence (successfully achieved in 1428), and the flourishing of the new state and its curiously structured empire. This history concludes with an analysis of the character of Moteuczoma II, and investigates the final sickness of the Mexican state. Cortez and his small army of Spaniards are seen here for the first time in historical literature through the eyes of the people they conquered. The Mexica Aztecs remain at the center of the narrative. The Mexica were unable to build a tightly knit empire because of the elitist, international warrior class and its peculiar cult of war and sacrifice. To the Mexica, warfare and bloodshed were sacraments; the teuctli or knightly warrior was the priest of this cult. to which he was as loyal as to the state. In this lay the uniqueness of the Mexican state and the seeds of its tragic end in 1521.

Author : Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603848176

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The True History of The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo Pdf

This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and frequent cruelty of Hernando Cortes and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezuma's Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New World. The concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins, history, and methods of the Spanish enterprise in the Americas; it also discusses the nature of the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs in Mexico, and compares Diaz's version of events to those of other contemporary chroniclers. Editorial glosses summarize omitted portions, and substantial footnotes explain those terms, names, and cultural references in Diaz's text that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. A chronology of the Conquest is included, as are a guide to major figures, a select bibliography, and three maps.

Author : Alfred Percival Maudslay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317012979

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The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. By Bernal Diaz del Castillo, One of its Conquerors by Alfred Percival Maudslay Pdf

Books I-IV (1517-19), translated into English and edited, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay, M.A., Hon. Professor of Archaeology, National Museum, Mexico, concerning the discovery of Mexico and the expeditions of Francisco Hernández de Cordova and Hernan Cortés, the march inland, and the war in Tlaxcala. The edition includes a bibliography of Mexico, pp. 311-68. Continued in Second Series 24, 25, 30, and 40. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1908.

Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mexico
ISBN : 0415344786

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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521 by Bernal Díaz del Castillo Pdf

Four eye-witnesses of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards have left written records, but of these the present volume and the letters of Cortés are by far the most important.

Author : Peter R. H. Slee
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 071901896X

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Learning and a Liberal Education by Peter R. H. Slee Pdf

Author : Davíd Carrasco
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826342881

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The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo by Davíd Carrasco Pdf

The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España, offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and religious forces that drove the great cultural encounter between Spain and the Americas known as the "conquest of Mexico." Besides containing important passages, scenes, and events excluded from other abridgements, this edition includes eight useful interpretive essays that address indigenous religions and cultural practices, sexuality during the early colonial period, the roles of women in indigenous cultures, and analysis of the political and economic purposes behind Diaz del Castillo's narrative. A series of maps illuminate the routes of the conquistadors, the organization of indigenous settlements, the struggle for the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, as well as the disastrous Spanish journey to Honduras. The information compiled for this volume offers increased accessibility to the original text, places it in a wider social and narrative context, and encourages further learning, research, and understanding.

Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108017053

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The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo Pdf

An eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico (1519-1522); in this volume foot soldier Díaz joins Cortés' army.

Author : Peg A. Lamphier,Rosanne Welch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2508 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216166566

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Women in American History [4 volumes] by Peg A. Lamphier,Rosanne Welch Pdf

This four-volume set documents the complexity and richness of women's contributions to American history and culture, empowering all students by demonstrating a more populist approach to the past. Based on the content of most textbooks, it would be easy to reach the erroneous conclusion that women have not contributed much to America's history and development. Nothing could be further from the truth. Offering comprehensive coverage of women of a diverse range of cultures, classes, ethnicities, religions, and sexual identifications, this four-volume set identifies the many ways in which women have helped to shape and strengthen the United States. This encyclopedia is organized into four chronological volumes, with each volume further divided into three sections. Each section features an overview essay and thematic essay as well as detailed entries on topics ranging from Lady Gaga to Ladybird Johnson, Lucy Stone, and Lucille Ball, and from the International Ladies of Rhythm to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The set also includes a vast variety of primary documents, such as personal letters, public papers, newspaper articles, recipes, and more. These primary documents enhance users' learning opportunities and enable readers to better connect with the subject matter.

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1467 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547009597

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The Most Celebrated Travels & Travellers by Jules Verne Pdf

This 3 Volume series takes the readers on an unforgettable journey from 505 BCE till 19th Century recounting extraordinary tales of exploration and navigators. Verne's knowledge is truly remarkable and vast which he has also used in his great science fiction classics and adventure stories and thus, showing the depth of his literary prowess._x000D_ Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction.A true visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time.

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788027223350

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The Great Travels & Travellers (Illustrated Edition) by Jules Verne Pdf

This 3 Volume series takes the readers on an unforgettable journey from 505 BCE till 19th Century recounting extraordinary tales of exploration and navigators. Verne's knowledge is truly remarkable and vast which he has also used in his great science fiction classics and adventure stories and thus, showing the depth of his literary prowess. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction.A true visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time.

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781591070832

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Seekers and Traders by Jules Verne Pdf

In Seekers and Traders we have the brilliant romancer, Jules Verne, holding his fancy under control and speaking for once in simplest truthfulness. He who had so thoroughly read up in geographies and books of travel that he might make stories from them, was perhaps of all men best fitting for the task of telling in earnest what real men had really done in the demarcation of the world. In this volume there was no need for the writer to create romance. He had only to appreciate and make visible to others the romance which already existed in overflowing measure in the daring deeds of the great explorers.During the intervals of this work Verne was patiently gather fresh material for its completion. How seriously and thoroughly the labor of preparation was undertaken he himself points out for us. He says: ?In order to give this work all the accuracy possible, I have called in the aid of a man whom I with justice regard as one of the most competent geographers of the present day, M. Gabriel Marcel, attached to the BibliothPque Nationale. With the advantage of his acquaintance with several foreign languages which are unknown to me, we have been able to go to the fountain-head, and to draw all our information from absolutely original documents.?Contents:The Discoverers of Central AmericaThe First Voyage Round the WorldThe Polar Expeditions and the Search for the Northwest PassageVoyages of Adventure and Privateering WarfareMissionaries and SettlersMerchants and TouristsThe Pole and America

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089194226

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Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne Pdf