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Focusing on the major events and personalities during the fall of the Mexica empire, Victors and Vanquished helps you go deeper into this historical episode by revealing changing attitudes toward European expansionism.
Victors and Vanquished Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire
by Schwartz, Stuart B.; Seijas, TatianaEdition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2017-10-16
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Summary
Author Biography
STUART B. SCHWARTZ is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University. His scholary work concentrates on the early history of Latin America and the history of Brazil. He is the author of Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (1992) and Sugar Plantations and the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia 1550-1835 (1985), which won the American Historical Associations Bolton Prize for the Best Work in Latin American History. Professor Schwartz is also editor of Implicit Understandings: The Encounter Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (1994) and a coeditor of The Cambridge History of Native American Peoples (1999). A former fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Council of Learned Societies, he is currently completing a work entitled The Rebellion of Portugal and the Crisis of the Iberian Empires, 1621-1668.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Maps and Illustrations
PART ONE
Introduction: States in Conflict
A Long Tradition: The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica
Tenochtitlan: The Foundation of Heaven
Mexica Society
Renaissance Conquistadors
The Spanish Sources
Indigenous Historical Traditions
PART TWO: The Documents
1. Omens
1. Juan de Tovar, Mexican Eagle and Cactus, from History of the Arrival of Indians to Populate Mexico
2. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
3. Fray Martín de Jesús de la Coruña, from the Chronicles of Michoacán
4. Diego Durán, from The History of the Indies of New Spain
2. Preparations
5. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
6. Hernando Cortés, Letters to Charles V
7. Town Council of Vera Cruz, Letter to Charles V
3 Encounters
8. Hernando Cortés, Letters to Charles V
9. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
10. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
4. The March Inland: Tlaxcala and Cholula
11. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
12. Andrés de Tapia, A Spanish View of the Cholula Massacre
13. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
14. Tlaxcalan Noblemen Greet Cortés and Massacre at Cholula, from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala
5. Tenochtitlan
15. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
16. Moctezuma and Cortés Meet in Tenochtitlan, from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala
17. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
6. Things Fall Apart: Toxcatl and the Noche triste
18. Francisco López de Gómara, from History of the Conquest of Mexico
19. Juan de Tovar, Dance of the Nobles, from History of the Arrival of Indians to Populate Mexico
20. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
21. Here Motecuhzoma Died and the Marques Arrived from the Codex Aubin
22. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
23. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
7. The Siege and Fall of Tenochtitlan
24. New Sun in Tlaxcala and Joint Spanish-Nahua Assault at Copolco, from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala
25. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, from the Account of the Conquest of New Spain
26. Fray Martín de Jesús de la Coruña, from the Chronicles of Michoacán
27. Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, from the Florentine Codex
28. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
29. Nahua Poetry, from Cantares Mexicanos
8. Aftermath: Tradition and Transformation
30. Bernal Díaz, from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
31. From the Proof of the Faithful Service of Doña Marina During the Conquest of New Spain
32. Three Folios from the Codex Mendoza
33. The Shape of the Land, from the Relaciónes geográficas and the Mapa Uppsula
34. Town Council of Huejotzingo, Letter to King Phillip II
35. From the Huejotzingo Census (Matrícula de Huexotzinco)
36. Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin, The Death of Cuauhtémoc, from The Codex Chimalpahin
37. From the Title of Acalan-Tixel
APPENDICES
Chronology of the Conquest of Tenochtitlan (1485–1584)
Questions for Consideration
Biographical Notes
Glossary of Terms in Nahuatl and other Indigenous Languages
Selected Bibliography
Index
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