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A hero for the Americas : the legend of Gonzalo Guerrero / Robert Calder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calder, Robert, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guerrero, Gonzalo, -approximately 1528.
- Guerrero, Gonzalo.
- Spaniards--Mexico--Biography.
- Spaniards.
- Mayas--Yucatán Peninsula--History--16th century.
- Mayas.
- Mayas--First contact with other peoples.
- Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) : maps
- Place of Publication:
- Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The biography of Spaniard Gonzalo Guerrero, who became one of the great leaders of the Mayan race.
- Contents:
- "No white man ever enters it" : the Yucatán Peninsula
- "To serve God and . . . to get rich" : the lure of the New World
- "It seemed the end of the world" : Balboa, Pizarro, and the perils of Darién
- "It will never do to leave him here" : shipwreck, enslavement, and Hernán Cortés
- "What would the Spanish say should they see me in this guise?" : Gonzalo among the Maya
- "Language is the perfect instrument of empire" : Aguilar and the conquest of the Aztecs
- "Gonzalo, my brother and special friend" : Guerrero the warrior and the battle for Yucatán
- "The power of narrative is absolute" : Guerrero in the contemporary Mexican consciousness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780889775114
- 0889775117
- 9780889775107
- 0889775109
- OCLC:
- 1023435249
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