When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019Description: 526 p.: ill. (chiefly color), maps, genealogical table , 24 cm Media type: - 9780062427267
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| 972 SHE The Aztecs / | 972 STO Aztec / | 972.018 SOU Daily life of the Aztecs : on the eve of the Spanish conquest / | 972.020922 RES When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / | 972.81016 DEM Ancient Maya : the rise and fall of a rainforest civilization / | 972.91 VAZ Cuba / | 972.98 BRO Barbados / |
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.
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