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Rhetorical Conquests : Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance Imperialism /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carman, Glen, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A brief account of events
  • Accounting for the account
  • Rhetoric and Renaissance historiography
  • Cortes and Machiavelli
  • Cortes's written authority : fabricating truth
  • Conquering and convincing
  • Competing accounts (1521-1552)
  • History as biography : theory and practice in Gómara
  • Gómara's protean hero
  • Voice and irony
  • Trusting the translator
  • Gómara's Cortes defines himself
  • Quelling a mutiny in Tlaxcala
  • From idols to icons
  • Renaissance ventriloquism
  • Rendering Moctezuma harmless in Cortes's Segunda relación
  • Gómara and the humanist revisions of surrender.