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When Montezuma Met Cortes - The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History (Paperback)
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When Montezuma Met Cortes - The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History (Paperback)
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and
Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the
Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish
conquistador Hernando Cortes 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 Cortes'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 Cortes uses
"the Meeting"-as Restall dubs their first encounter-as the entry
point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortes and
Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts
by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortes'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.
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