In The Shadow Of Cortes

Author : Kathleen Ann Myers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532303
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Cortés written by Kathleen Ann Myers and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years ago, the army of conquest led by Hernan Cortés marched hundreds of miles across a rugged swath of land from Veracruz on the Mexican Caribbean to the capital city of the Aztecs, now Mexico City. This journey was the catalyst for profound cultural and political change in Mesoamerica. Today, many Mexicans view the Ruta de Cortés as a symbol of an event that forever changed the course of their history. But few U.S. Americans understand how the conquest still affects Mexicans’ national identity and their relationship with the United States. Following the route of Hernán Cortés, In the Shadow of Cortés offers a visual and cultural history of the legacy of contact between Spaniards and indigenous civilizations. The book is a reflective journey that presents a diversity of voices, images, and ideas about history and conquest. Specialist in Mexican culture Kathleen Ann Myers teams up with prize-winning translators and photographers to offer a unique reading experience that combines accessible interpretative essays with beautifully translated interviews and dozens of historical and contemporary black-and-white and color images, including some by award-winner Steven Raymer. The result offers readers multiple perspectives on these pivotal events as imagined and re-envisioned today by Mexicans both in their homeland and in the United States. In the Shadow of Cortés offers an extensive visual narrative about conquest and, ultimately, about Mexican history. It traces the symbolic geography of the conquest and shows how the historical memory of colonialism continues to shape lives today.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062427288
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Montezuma Met Cortès written by Matthew Restall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses “the Meeting”—as Restall dubs their first encounter—as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived—leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.

Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico, and the Life of the Conqueror Fernando Cortes written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520236912
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistadors written by Michael Wood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is historical narrative of a very high quality. The prose is lucid, the descriptive episodes powerfully drawn. Wood describes fairly and sensitively the vast gulf that separated these Bronze Age [Aztec and Inca] cultures from the Western behemoth that overwhelmed and destroyed them, stressing in particular the near total inability of each society to comprehend the mores and values of the other."—Gene Brucker, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Hernán Cortés
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V written by Hernán Cortés and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy Morris
Publisher : Guy Morris Books
ISBN 13 : 1735728640
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curse of Cortes written by Guy Morris and published by Guy Morris Books. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cortes_Reviews_raw Play Video Buy Amazon Buy B&N Reviews See the Critic's Praise Listed on 25 Best of 2021 Fact vs Fiction In 1672, Henry Morgan took 36 ships and 2,000 men to sack Panama City for a $1 billion plunder and 600 slaves. Afterward, Morgan cheated his men, disappearing with nearly the entire treasure, and 200 slaves on three ships never to be seen again. Morgan alone survived as a haunted man who hid away in drunken debauchery, and burned his log books to keep the world from learning the terrifying truth. True story. ​ Three hundred years later, Sophia Martinez discovers odd relics hidden within a 200-year Roatan Island family home that reopens a legacy of disappearance, dementia and death. At the center of the mystery is a bloody log book written by an insane Inquisition executioner named Cortés. With a Mayan prophecy psychopath in pursuit, Sophia will need the help of lost relatives to uncover a sacred pilgrimage to the origins of the Mayan creation myth. Time is running out to decode the macabre enigma and escape the deadly necropolis or they too will vanish without a trace – and an apocalypse will unleash on live television.

Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127255
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquest written by Hugh Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.

Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico, and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortes written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hakluyt Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “The” Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes to Emperor Charles V, Containing an Account of His Expedition to Honduras written by Hakluyt Society and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hernando Cortés (marq. del Valle de Oaxaca.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The fifth [really sixth] letter of Hernan Cortes to the emperor Charles V. containing an account of his expedition to Honduras, tr. by P. de Gayangos written by Hernando Cortés (marq. del Valle de Oaxaca.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: