Invading Guatemala Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars

Invading Guatemala Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars

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Restall Matthew
Pennsylvania State University Press
EAN: 9780271027586
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After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K’iche’ Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony—with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala’s conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of the Spanish invasion was very different. Designed to be an accessible introduction to the topic as well as a significant contribution to conquest scholarship, the volume presents for the first time English translations of firsthand accounts by Spaniards, Nahuas, and Mayas.

Alvarado’s letters to Cortés, published here in English for the first time in almost a century, are supplemented with accounts by one of his cousins, by his brother Jorge, and by Bernal Díaz and Bartolomé de Las Casas. Nahua perspectives are presented in the form of pictorial evidence, along with written testimony by Tlaxcalan and Aztec veterans who fought as invading allies of the Spaniards; their claim to have done most of the fighting emerges as a powerful argument. The views of the invaded are represented by Kaqchikel and Tz’utujil accounts. Together, these sources reveal a fascinating multiplicity of perspectives and show how the conquest wars of the 1520s were a profoundly brutal moment in the history of the Americas.

EAN 9780271027586
ISBN 0271027584
Typ produktu Měkká vazba
Vydavatel Pennsylvania State University Press
Datum vydání 15. ledna 2008
Stránky 152
Jazyk English
Rozměry 216 x 140 x 10
Země United States
Autoři Asselbergs, Florine; Restall Matthew
Ilustrace 3 Maps; 4 Halftones, black and white
Série Latin American Originals