Rhetorical Conquests : Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance Imperialism /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carman, Glen, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cortes, Hernán, > 1485-1547 > Literary art.
López de Gómara, Francisco, > 1511-1564. > Historia general de las Indias.
Cortes, Hernán, > 1485-1547. > Cartas de relación.
Language and history > Mexico.
Mexico > Historiography.
Mexico > History > Conquest, 1519-1540.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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