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This is an up-to-date volume, organized for quick access to phrases
related to greetings, transportation, shopping, emergencies, and
other common circumstances. Over 700 entries include terms for
modern telecommunications, idioms, and slang. Phonetic
pronunciations also accompany phrases.
A descendant of both Spanish settlers and Nahua (Aztec) rulers, Don
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578-1650) was an avid
collector of indigenous pictorial and alphabetic texts and a
prodigious chronicler of the history of pre-conquest and
conquest-era Mexico. His magnum opus, here for the first time in
English translation, is one of the liveliest, most accessible, and
most influential accounts of the rise and fall of Aztec Mexico
derived from indigenous sources and memories and written from a
native perspective. Composed in the first half of the seventeenth
century, a hundred years after the arrival of the Spanish
conquerors in Mexico, the History of the Chichimeca Nation is based
on native accounts but written in the medieval chronicle style. It
is a gripping tale of adventure, romance, seduction, betrayal, war,
heroism, misfortune, and tragedy. Written at a time when
colonization and depopulation were devastating indigenous
communities, its vivid descriptions of the cultural sophistication,
courtly politics, and imperial grandeur of the Nahua world
explicitly challenged European portrayals of native Mexico as a
place of savagery and ignorance. Unpublished for centuries, it
nonetheless became an important source for many of our most beloved
and iconic memories of the Nahuas, widely consulted by scholars of
Spanish American history, politics, literature, anthropology, and
art. The manuscript of the History, lost in the 1820s, was only
rediscovered in the 1980s. This volume is not only the first-ever
English translation, but also the first edition in any language
derived entirely from the original manuscript. Expertly rendered,
with introduction and notes outlining the author's
historiographical legacy, this translation at long last affords
readers the opportunity to absorb the history of one of the
Americas' greatest indigenous civilizations as told by one of its
descendants.
A descendant of both Spanish settlers and Nahua (Aztec) rulers, Don
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl (ca. 1578-1650) was an avid
collector of indigenous pictorial and alphabetic texts and a
prodigious chronicler of the history of pre-conquest and
conquest-era Mexico. His magnum opus, here for the first time in
English translation, is one of the liveliest, most accessible, and
most influential accounts of the rise and fall of Aztec Mexico
derived from indigenous sources and memories and written from a
native perspective. Composed in the first half of the seventeenth
century, a hundred years after the arrival of the Spanish
conquerors in Mexico, the History of the Chichimeca Nation is based
on native accounts but written in the medieval chronicle style. It
is a gripping tale of adventure, romance, seduction, betrayal, war,
heroism, misfortune, and tragedy. Written at a time when
colonization and depopulation were devastating indigenous
communities, its vivid descriptions of the cultural sophistication,
courtly politics, and imperial grandeur of the Nahua world
explicitly challenged European portrayals of native Mexico as a
place of savagery and ignorance. Unpublished for centuries, it
nonetheless became an important source for many of our most beloved
and iconic memories of the Nahuas, widely consulted by scholars of
Spanish American history, politics, literature, anthropology, and
art. The manuscript of the History, lost in the 1820s, was only
rediscovered in the 1980s. This volume is not only the first-ever
English translation, but also the first edition in any language
derived entirely from the original manuscript. Expertly rendered,
with introduction and notes outlining the author's
historiographical legacy, this translation at long last affords
readers the opportunity to absorb the history of one of the
Americas' greatest indigenous civilizations as told by one of its
descendants.
The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the
Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history
of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this
volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed. In
essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest
of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians,
writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically
reimagined the Conquest to influence and manipulate perceptions
within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those
touching on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and
multiculturalism. Writing from a range of perspectives and
disciplines, the authors demonstrate that the Conquest of Mexico,
whose significance has ever been marked by fundamental ambiguity,
has consistently influenced how people across the modern Atlantic
world conceptualize themselves and their societies. After
considering the looming, ubiquitous role of the Conquest in Mexican
thought and discourse since the sixteenth century, the contributors
go farther afield to examine the symbolic relevance of the Conquest
in contexts as diverse as Tudor England, Bourbon France,
postimperial Spain, modern Latin America, and even contemporary
Hollywood. Highlighting the extent to which the Spanish-Aztec
conflict inspired historical reimaginings, these essays reveal how
the Conquest became such an iconic event-and a perennial medium by
which both Europe and the Americas have, for centuries, endeavored
to understand themselves as well as their relationship to others. A
valuable contribution to ongoing efforts to demythologize and
properly memorialize the Spanish-Aztec War of 1519-21, this volume
also aptly illustrates how we make history of the past and how that
history-making shapes our present-and possibly our future.
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