When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history /
Restall, Matthew. 1964-
When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall. - 526 p.: ill. (chiefly color), maps, genealogical table , 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-508) and index.
Contents: Prologue: Invention -- Mysterious kindness -- No small amazement -- Social grace and monstrous ritual -- The empire in his hands -- The greatest enterprises -- Principal plunderers -- The epic boxer -- Without mercy or purpose -- Epilogue: Halls of the Montezumas -- Appendix: Language and label, cast and dynasty.
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas on November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan.
English.
9780062427267
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520.
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
Imperialism--History.
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.
972.020922 RES
When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall. - 526 p.: ill. (chiefly color), maps, genealogical table , 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-508) and index.
Contents: Prologue: Invention -- Mysterious kindness -- No small amazement -- Social grace and monstrous ritual -- The empire in his hands -- The greatest enterprises -- Principal plunderers -- The epic boxer -- Without mercy or purpose -- Epilogue: Halls of the Montezumas -- Appendix: Language and label, cast and dynasty.
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas on November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan.
English.
9780062427267
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520.
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
Imperialism--History.
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540.
972.020922 RES