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In the shadow of Cortés : conversations along the route of conquest / Kathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Pablo García Loaeza and Grady C. Wray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Kathleen Ann, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexicans.
- Mexico--Civilization.
- Mexico.
- Civilization.
- Mexico--Civilization--Spanish influences.
- Mexico--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Mexico--Description and travel.
- Mexicans--Interviews.
- Mexican Americans--Interviews.
- Civilization--Spanish influences.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 357 pages. 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "The book proposes a visual and cultural history of the legacy of the contact between Spaniards and indigenous societies of Mexico by following the route of Hernán Cortés and by conducting personal interviews with ordinary Mexican people along these territories once crossed by the army of Spaniards"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I First Landings: Veracruz
- Three Veracruces: Staging Conquest and Colonization 49
- Villa Rica and Antigua de la Veracruz 65
- Xalapa: State Capital 77
- Nahua Perspectives from Comunidades in the Sierra Zongolica 79
- Interview Selections, Part I 87
- Part II The March Inland: Tlaxcala, Cholula, and Puebla
- Crossroads: San Francisco de Ixtacamaxtitlan 99
- Tlaxcala: Allies, Foes, and Identity Politics 105
- The Sacred City of Cholula: Destruction and Survival 118
- Conquests and Continuities: The Valley of Puebla 137
- The Spanish City: Puebla de Los Angeles 151
- Interview Selections, Part II 163
- Part III The Center: Mexico City-Tenochtitlan
- Las Colonias and El Estado de Mexico 197
- Back to the Center: The Historic District 217
- The Retreat Toward Cuernavaca 235
- Interview Selections, Part III 238
- Part IV El Otro Lado: Mexicans in the United States
- Mexico and the United States of America 269
- Interview Selections, Part IV 294.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816521036
- 0816521034
- OCLC:
- 907272338
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