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The Conquest of New Spain
by Bernal Diaz  Publisher Comments Fifty years after the startling defeat of the Aztecs by Hernán Cortés and his small band of adventurers, Díaz writes a magnificent account on his experience as a soldier in CortésÆs army....
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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (03 Edition)
by Matthew Restall Publisher Comments Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and...
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Malintzin's Choices : Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (06 Edition)
by Camilla Townsend Synopsis Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Corts in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. Malintzin, at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her do?a Marina, and she has...
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Broken Spears Aztec Account Exp Edition
by Migue Leon Portilla Publisher Comments 'In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints...
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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521
by Bernal Del Castillo Publisher Comments Paperback reissue....
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Cortes and Montezuma
by Maurice Collis Synopsis The convergence of Cortes and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America". Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernan Cortes felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and...
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Conquistadors
by Michael Wood Publisher Comments Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hern&...
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The New World of Martin Cortes
by Anna Lanyon Publisher Comments Martin Cortes was the first, and illegitimate, son of the conquistador Hernan Cortes and the indigenous American woman who translated for him-the legendary Malinche. Taken from his mother as an infant, he was raised in Cuba by paternal relatives. At six...
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Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
by Hugh Thomas Publisher Comments Rivers of Gold is the best kind of history: absorbing and authoritative, vast in its erudition and enlightenment, equally serious and riveting. You think you know the story of the "discovery" of the new world, but as the New York Times said about Hugh...
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The New World of Martin Cortes
by Anna Lanyon Publisher Comments As the once-great Aztec empire lay in ruins, an illegitimate child was born to its conqueror, Hernan Cortes. The product of a union between the famous conquistador and his Mayan slave woman and translator, Malinche, the child was named Martin Cortes...
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Mirrors of a Disaster: The Spanish Military Conquest of America
by Gerard Chaliand Synopsis In Mirrors of a Disaster, Gerard Chaliand narrates the major events that followed the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru with the scope and rhythm of an epic poem. He seeks to make meaningful the strict chronicle of a conquest through those who lived it....
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Titu Cusi (06 Edition)
by Legnani Publisher Comments First written in 1570, this work now published for the first time in modern Spanish with an English translation sheds light on the Inqa (Inca) world. The writing of Instrucciandoacute;n followed more than a decade of negotiations and skirmishes between...
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin Classics)
by Bartol De Las Casas Publisher Comments No work is a stronger, more exacting, heartbreaking record of the Spanish atrocities in the genocidal enterprise of colonization in the Americas. This account provides an eyewitnessÆs history of the process in the territory of Columbus....
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Conquistadors
by Michael Wood Publisher Comments Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hern&...
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Victors & Vanquished
by Stuart B Schwartz
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Betrayal of Montezuma
by Bernal Diaz
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Conquest of America
by Tzvetan Todorov Description Bibliography: p. [255]-263....
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They Are Coming--: The Conquest of Mexico
by Jose Lopez Portillo Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-368) and index....
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Conquistadors
by Hammond Innes
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