The Mexican Prince Or The Story Of Montezuma
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When Montezuma Met Cortès
Author | : Matthew Restall |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062427288 |
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses “the Meeting”—as Restall dubs their first encounter—as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived—leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.
Letters from Mexico
Author | : Hernan Cortes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300090943 |
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.
Aztec Warfare
Author | : Ross Hassig |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806127736 |
In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical superiority, faced logistical problems presented by the terrain, and competed with agriculture for manpower, the Aztecs relied as much on threats and the image of power as on military might to subdue enemies and hold them in their orbit. Hassig describes the role of war in the everyday life of the capital, Tenochtitlan: the place of the military in Aztec society; the education and training of young warriors; the organization of the army; the use of weapons and armor; and the nature of combat.
The History of Mexico
Author | : Francesco Saverio Clavigero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1787 |
Genre | : Indians of Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Conquest of Mexico
Author | : William H. Prescott |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434405354 |
The History of Mexico
Author | : Francesco Saverio Clavigero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Indians of Mexico |
ISBN | : |