The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 014191307X
Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital.
Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
In this sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind," celebrated paleoanthropologist Johanson, along with Wong, explore the extraordinary discoveries since Lucy was unearthed more than three decades ago
Author : Herbert Cerwin
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Documented biography of Bernal Diaz de Castillo and his times from the official archives in Guatemala.
Author : Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1624661882
Ideally suited for use in swift-moving surveys of World, Atlantic, and Latin American history, this abridgment of Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke's 2012 translation of the True History provides key excerpts from Diaz's text and concise summaries of omitted passages. Included in this edition is a new preface outlining the social, economic, and political forces that motivated the European discovery of the New World.
Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Davíd Carrasco
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0826342884
The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España, offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and religious forces that drove the great cultural encounter between Spain and the Americas known as the "conquest of Mexico." Besides containing important passages, scenes, and events excluded from other abridgements, this edition includes eight useful interpretive essays that address indigenous religions and cultural practices, sexuality during the early colonial period, the roles of women in indigenous cultures, and analysis of the political and economic purposes behind Diaz del Castillo's narrative. A series of maps illuminate the routes of the conquistadors, the organization of indigenous settlements, the struggle for the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, as well as the disastrous Spanish journey to Honduras. The information compiled for this volume offers increased accessibility to the original text, places it in a wider social and narrative context, and encourages further learning, research, and understanding.
Author : Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Sarah H. Beckjord
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271034998
Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history. Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources—eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences—categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord’s study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth—especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors’ critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory.