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The history of the conquest of New Spain / by Bernal Diaz del Castillo ; edited and with an introduction by David Carrasco with additional essays by Rolena Adorno, David Carrasco, Sandra Cypess, and Karen Vieira Powers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584.
- Standardized Title:
- Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism--History--16th century.
- Imperialism.
- Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.
- Mexico.
- New Spain--History--16th century.
- New Spain.
- Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
- Cortés, Hernán.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (505 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A new abridgment of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Preface; The Expedition under Cordova; The Expedition under Grijalva; The Expedition under Cortés Begins; 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 Beige 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; Torturing Guatemoc for Treasure; Zapotec Fury; Pedro de Alvarado Attacks in Guatemala; Turmoil in Chiapas; The Arrival of the Twelve Franciscans; Mexico City Becomes a Roman Circus; Maps; Bernal Díaz del Castillo; Cortés and the Sacred Ceiba; Colonial Sexuality
- La Malinche as Palimpset The Exaggerations of Human Sacrifice; Tenochtitlan as a Political Capital and World Symbol; Human Sacrifice/Debt Payments from the Aztec Point of View; Spaniards as Gods
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613683281
- 9781280772511
- 1280772514
- 9780826342881
- 0826342884
- OCLC:
- 795895454
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