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" The history of the conquest of New Spain / "
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; edited and with an introduction by Davíd Carrasco with additional essays by Rolena Adorno, Davíd Carrasco, Sandra Cypess, and Karen Vieira Powers
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BL
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700060
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b522249
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| Uniform Title
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Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España.English
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Díaz del Castillo, Bernal,1496-1584
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The history of the conquest of New Spain /\ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; edited and with an introduction by Davíd Carrasco with additional essays by Rolena Adorno, Davíd Carrasco, Sandra Cypess, and Karen Vieira Powers
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Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press,, 2008
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xxviii, 473 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 23 cm
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0826342876
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: 9780826342874
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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Introduction: The dream of the conquistador and a book of desire and destruction / Davíd Carrasco -- Preface by Bernal Díaz del Castillo -- The expedition under Cordova -- The expedition under Grijalva -- Expedition under Cortés begins: intrigues in Cuba -- 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 siege 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: taking women -- Torturing Guatemoc for treasure, malicious graffiti -- Zapotec fury -- Pedro de Alvarado attacks in Guatemala -- Turmoil in Chiapas -- The arrival of the twelve Franciscans -- Mexico City becomes a Roman circus -- Bernal Díaz del Castillo: soldier, eyewitness, polemicist / Rolena Adorno -- Cortés and the sacred ceiba: a Maya axis mundi / Davíd Carrasco -- Colonial sexuality: of women, men, and Mestizaje / Karen Vieira Powers -- La Malinche as Palimpsest II / Sandra Messinger Cypess -- The exaggerations of human sacrifice / Davíd Carrasco -- Tenochtitlan as a political capital and world symbol / Davíd Carrasco -- Human sacrifice/debt payments from the Aztec point of view / Davíd Carrasco -- Spaniards as gods: the Return of Quetzalcoatl / Davíd Carrasco
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Cortés, Hernán,1485-1547
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Mexico, History, Conquest, 1519-1540
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972/.02
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F1230.D56513 2008
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Carrasco, David
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