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Cortés and Montezuma / Maurice Collis.
LIBRA - Special F1230.C835 C58 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collis, Maurice, 1889-1973.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
- Cortés, Hernán.
- Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520.
- Montezuma.
- Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.
- Mexico.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 251 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1999.
- Summary:
- "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 the eve of Good Friday, 1519, Hernan Cortes felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and civilize the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, 1519 (known in their advanced astronomical system as "One Reed") was the date of a dire prophesy: the return of Quetzalcoatl, a fearsome god predicted to arrive by ship, from the East, with light skin, a black beard, robed in black - exactly as Cortes would. The ensuing drama is described by eminent historian Maurice Collis in a style that is equal parts story and scholarship."--Jacket.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : R. Clark, 1994.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0811214230
- 9780811214230
- OCLC:
- 41156321
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