Chimalpahin's Conquest - A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico (Hardcover)

This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortes's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco Lopez de Gomara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de Mexico was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, La conquista fell into the hands of the seventeenth-century Nahua historian Chimalpahin, who took it upon himself to make a copy of the tome. As he copied, Chimalpahin rewrote large sections of La conquista, adding information about Emperor Moctezuma and other key indigenous people who participated in those first encounters. Chialpahin's Conquest is thus not only the first complete modern English translation of Lopez de Gomara's La conquista, an invaluable source in itself of information about the conquest and native peoples; it also adds Chimalpahin's unique perspective of Nahua culture to what has traditionally been a very Hispanic portrayal of the conquest.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Susan Schroeder
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	536
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-6948-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-6948-6
Barcode:	9780804769488

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