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The history of the conquest of New Spain /
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 encou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Siege 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