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.
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. English. Selections
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
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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