by Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; edited and with an introduction by Davíd Carrasco with additional essays by Rolena Adorno, Davíd Carrasco, Sandra Cypess, and Karen Vieira Powers
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2008
xxviii, 473 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction: The dream of the conquistador and a book of desire and destruction / Davíd Carrasco -- Preface by Bernal Díaz del Castillo -- The expedition under Cordova -- The expedition under Grijalva -- Expedition under Cortés begins: intrigues in Cuba -- 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: taking women -- Torturing Guatemoc for treasure, malicious graffiti -- Zapotec fury -- Pedro de Alvarado attacks in Guatemala -- Turmoil in Chiapas -- The arrival of the twelve Franciscans -- Mexico City becomes a Roman circus -- Bernal Díaz del Castillo: soldier, eyewitness, polemicist / Rolena Adorno -- Cortés and the sacred ceiba: a Maya axis mundi / Davíd Carrasco -- Colonial sexuality: of women, men, and Mestizaje / Karen Vieira Powers -- La Malinche as Palimpsest II / Sandra Messinger Cypess -- The exaggerations of human sacrifice / Davíd Carrasco -- Tenochtitlan as a political capital and world symbol / Davíd Carrasco -- Human sacrifice/debt payments from the Aztec point of view / Davíd Carrasco -- Spaniards as gods: the Return of Quetzalcoatl / Davíd Carrasco
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Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España.