عنوان

The history of the conquest of New Spain /

(Number (ISBN

0826342876

(Number (ISBN

9780826342874

Number

b522249

Title Proper

The history of the conquest of New Spain /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

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

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albuquerque :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of New Mexico Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxviii, 473 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

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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General Material Designation

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España.

Form Subheading

Selections.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Cortés, Hernán,1485-1547

Mexico, History, Conquest, 1519-1540

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal,1496-1584

Carrasco, David

Date of Transaction

20101029034235.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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