The True History Of The Conquest Of New Spain

Author : Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141913070

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The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo Pdf

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital.

Author : Davíd Carrasco
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : 436 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108017060

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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); this volume focuses on the Aztec emperor Montezuma.

Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UOM:39015034434236

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

In this sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind," celebrated paleoanthropologist Johanson, along with Wong, explore the extraordinary discoveries since Lucy was unearthed more than three decades ago

Author : Amber Brian,Bradley Benton,Pablo García Loaeza
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271072067

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The Native Conquistador by Amber Brian,Bradley Benton,Pablo García Loaeza Pdf

For many years, scholars of the conquest worked to shift focus away from the Spanish perspective and bring attention to the often-ignored voices and viewpoints of the Indians. But recent work that highlights the “Indian conquistadors” has forced scholars to reexamine the simple categories of conqueror and subject and to acknowledge the seemingly contradictory roles assumed by native peoples who chose to fight alongside the Spaniards against other native groups. The Native Conquistador—a translation of the “Thirteenth Relation,” written by don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl in the early seventeenth century—narrates the conquest of Mexico from Hernando Cortés’s arrival in 1519 through his expedition into Central America in 1524. The protagonist of the story, however, is not the Spanish conquistador but Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s great-great-grandfather, the native prince Ixtlilxochitl of Tetzcoco. This account reveals the complex political dynamics that motivated Ixtlilxochitl’s decisive alliance with Cortés. Moreover, the dynamic plotline, propelled by the feats of Prince Ixtlilxochitl, has made this a compelling story for centuries—and one that will captivate students and scholars today.

Author : Bernal Diaz del Castillo,Ted Humphrey
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624661884

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The Essential Diaz by Bernal Diaz del Castillo,Ted Humphrey Pdf

Ideally suited for use in swift-moving surveys of World, Atlantic, and Latin American history, this abridgment of Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke's 2012 translation of the True History provides key excerpts from Diaz's text and concise summaries of omitted passages. Included in this edition is a new preface outlining the social, economic, and political forces that motivated the European discovery of the New World.

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 : Diego Durán
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0806126493

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The History of the Indies of New Spain by Diego Durán Pdf

An unabridged translation of a 16th century Dominican friar's history of the Aztec world before the Spanish conquest, based on a now-lost Nahuatl chronicle and interviews with Aztec informants. Duran traces the history of the Aztecs from their mythic origins to the destruction of the empire, and describes the court life of the elite, the common people, and life in times of flood, drought, and war. Includes an introduction and annotations providing background on recent studies of colonial Mexico, and 62 b&w illustrations from the original manuscript. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197537312

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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall Pdf

An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and themes that were for generations debated or perpetuated without question in academic and popular circles. The 2003 edition became the foundation stone of a scholarly turn since called The New Conquest History. Each of the book's seven chapters describes one "myth," or one aspect of the Conquest that has been distorted or misrepresented, examines its roots, and explodes its fallacies and misconceptions. Using a wide array of primary and secondary sources, written in a scholarly but readable style, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest explains why Columbus did not set out to prove the world was round, the conquistadors were not soldiers, the native Americans did not take them for gods, Cortés did not have a unique vision of conquest procedure, and handfuls of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. Conquest realities were more complex--and far more fascinating--than conventional histories have related, and they featured a more diverse cast of protagonists-Spanish, Native American, and African. This updated edition of a key event in the history of the Americas critically examines the book's arguments, how they have held up, and why they prompted the rise of a New Conquest History.

Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Mexico
ISBN : OCLC:1331318545

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

Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Mexico
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014362610

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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo by Bernal Díaz del Castillo Pdf

Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UCBK:B000847713

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

Author : Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807095454

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The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition by Miguel Leon-Portilla Pdf

For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. León-Portilla's new Postscript reflects upon the critical importance of these unexpected historical accounts.

Author : Fernando Cervantes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101981283

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Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes Pdf

A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world “The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how to tell a good story.” —The Times (London) Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history.