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Author : Miguel Leon-Portilla
Release Date : 07 February 2011
Publisher : Beacon Press
Genre : History
Pages : 264
ISBN 13 : 9780807095454

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Book Description: For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic The Broken Spears, León-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. León-Portilla's new Postscript reflects upon the critical importance of these unexpected historical accounts.

The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition

Author : Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher : Beacon Press
Genre : History
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For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new ...

The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition

Author : Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher : Beacon Press
Genre : History
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For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new ...

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : History
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An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus ...

Aztec Thought and Culture

Author : Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Genre : History
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For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems of education, ...

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Author : Trevor R. Getz,Liz Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Genre : Sex crimes
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Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association--and widely acclaimed by educators and students--Abina and the Important Men, Second Edition, is a compelling and powerfully illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took ...

The Life and Times of Mexico

Author : Earl Shorris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Genre : History
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico." —History Today The Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic ...

Historia de la Conquista de M xico

Author : Kathleen M. Blee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Genre : History
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Historians are concerned today that the Spaniards' early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas should be balanced with accounts from the Indian perspective. We People Here reflects that concern, bringing together important and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl language in sixteenth-century Mexico. James Lockhart's ...

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Author : David M. Carballo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Genre : History
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"Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortâes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec empire. It served as a template for the forging ...

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Author : Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : History
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More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Learn the unbelievable true history of the Indigenous tribes of Mexico. Dozens of charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life by the deep research and entertaining ...

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Author : Miguel Leon-Portilla,Earl Shorris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Genre : Literary Collections
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The first anthology in any language to represent the full trajectory of this remarkable literature....

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Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Pantheon
Genre : History
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At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to ...

Sor Juana In s de la Cruz Selected Works

Author : Juana Inés de la Cruz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Genre : Poetry
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Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature. Sor Juana (1651–1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix ...

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Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Genre : History
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—...

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Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Genre : History
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Since its violent dissolution in 1521, the Aztec Empire of Mexico has continually intrigued us. Recent discoveries resulting from the excavation of the Templo Mayor in the heart of Mexico City have taught us even more about this fascinating culture. The increasing recognition that the achievements of Mesoamerican civilizations were among ...

Native Mesoamerican Spirituality

Author : Miguel León Portilla
Publisher : Paulist Press
Genre : Religion
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This volume presents a carefully edited and translated collection of Pre-Columbian ancient spiritual texts. It presents relevant examples of those sacred writings of the indigenous peoples of Central America, especially Mexico, that have survived destruction. The majority of texts were conceived in the 950-1521 A.D. period. Their authors were ...