The History of the Conquest of New Spain
by Diaz Del Castillo, BernalFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary
Besides containing important passages, scenes, and events excluded from other abridgments, this edition includes eight useful interpretive essays that address Bernal Diaz's political and religious agenda, the significance of La Malinche, colonial sexuality, and indigenous religious and cultural practices. A series of maps illuminates the routes of the conquistadors, the organization of indigenous settlements, the cosmology of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, and the disastrous Spanish journey to Guatemala. Book jacket.
Author Biography
David Carrasco is Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Divinity School at Harvard University
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Introduction: The Dream of the Conquistador and a Book of Desire and Destruction | p. xi |
| Preface by Bernal Diaz del Castillo | p. xxviii |
| The Expedition under Cordova | p. 1 |
| The Expedition under Grijalva | p. 14 |
| Expedition under Cortes Begins: Intrigues in Cuba | p. 17 |
| Cortes Finds an Interpreter | p. 28 |
| Cortes Attacks the Ceiba Tree | p. 40 |
| Enter Dona Marina | p. 48 |
| Signs of Empire | p. 52 |
| Spaniards Viewed as Gods | p. 64 |
| Cortes Destroys the Ships | p. 84 |
| War in Tlaxcala | p. 90 |
| The Spaniards' Plea for Peace and Alliance | p. 98 |
| Ambassadors from Montezuma Arrive | p. 110 |
| Baptizing Tlaxcalan Women | p. 119 |
| The Massacre at Cholula | p. 131 |
| The March to Mexico | p. 147 |
| Arrival in the Splendid City of Tenochtitlan | p. 156 |
| Montezuma in Captivity | p. 184 |
| Games with Montezuma | p. 193 |
| Cortes Struggles with Narvaez | p. 209 |
| Spanish Massacre of the Dancers | p. 211 |
| Spanish Defeat and the Noche Triste | p. 225 |
| The Return to the Valley and the Alliance with Texcoco | p. 239 |
| The Siege Begins from Texcoco | p. 263 |
| Indian Allies and Spanish Disasters | p. 277 |
| Dismal Drums and Human Sacrifices | p. 287 |
| The Fall of Mexico and the Surrender of Guatemoc | p. 296 |
| The City as a Wasteland: Taking Women | p. 303 |
| Torturing Guatemoc for Treasure: Malicious Graffiti | p. 311 |
| Zapotec Fury | p. 326 |
| Pedro de Alvarado Attacks in Guatemala | p. 329 |
| Turmoil in Chiapas | p. 342 |
| The Arrival of the Twelve Franciscans | p. 354 |
| Mexico City Becomes a Roman Circus | p. 362 |
| Maps | p. 373 |
| Essays | |
| Bernal Diaz del Castillo: Soldier, Eyewitness, Polemicist | p. 389 |
| Cortes and the Sacred Ceiba: A Maya Axis Mundi | p. 399 |
| Colonial Sexuality: Of Women, Men, and Mestizaje | p. 405 |
| La Malinche as Palimpsest II | p. 418 |
| The Exaggerations of Human Sacrifice | p. 439 |
| Tenochtitlan as a Political Capital and World Symbol | p. 448 |
| Human Sacrifice/Debt Payments from the Aztec Point of View | p. 458 |
| Spaniards as Gods: The Return of Quetzalcoatl | p. 466 |
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