When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History Contributor(s): Restall, Matthew (Author) |
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ISBN: 006242727X ISBN-13: 9780062427274 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Expeditions & Discoveries - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | Native American |
Dewey: 972.020 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 576 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - Spanish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cort s that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cort s first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cort s's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. |
Contributor Bio(s): Restall, Matthew: - Matthew Restall is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and director of Latin American studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the John Carter Brown Library, the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has written twenty books and sixty articles and essays on the histories of the Mayas, of Africans in Spanish America, and of the Spanish Conquest. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and the youngest of his four daughters. |