After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to
have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have
forged a new colony--with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as
Guatemala's conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of
the Spanish invasion was very different. Designed to be both an
accessible introduction to the topic as well as a significant
contribution to conquest scholarship, the volume presents for the
first time English translations of firsthand accounts by Spaniards,
Nahuas, and Mayas.
Alvarado's letters to Cortes, published here in English for the
first time in almost a century, are supplemented with accounts by
one of his cousins, by his brother Jorge, and by Bernal Diaz and
Bartolome de Las Casas. Nahua perspectives are presented in the
form of pictorial evidence, along with written testimony by
Tlaxcalan and Aztec veterans who fought as invading allies of the
Spaniards; their claim to have done most of the fighting emerges as
a powerful argument. The views of the invaded are represented by
Kaqchikel and Tz'utujil accounts. Together, these sources reveal a
fascinating multiplicity of perspectives and show how the conquest
wars of the 1520s were a profoundly brutal moment in the history of
the Americas.
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