When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.

By:

Restall, Matthew, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019Description: 526 p.: ill. (chiefly color), maps, genealogical table , 24 cm Media type:

Carrier type:

ISBN:

9780062427267

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DDC classification:

972.020922 RES

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Lise Kütüphanesi / High School Library	İngilizce Roman Dışı / English Non Fiction (HS)	972.020922 RES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	T 347918

Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-508) and index.

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.

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