Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico (Series Chimalpahin)

Susan Schroeder, Anne J. Cruz, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, David E. Tavárez (Editors and Translators)

ISBN 10: 0804769486 / ISBN 13: 9780804769488

Published by Stanford University Press, 2010

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xvi plus 510 pages. Cloth hardcover. A clean, tight, unmarked and possibly unread copy. Sunfade to spine of dust jacket, close to as-new otherwise.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico (Series Chimalpahin)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804769486
• ISBN 13: 9780804769488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, La conquista fell into the hands of the seventeenth-century Nahua historian Chimalpahin, who took it upon himself to make a copy of the tome. As he copied, Chimalpahin rewrote large sections of La conquista, adding information about Emperor Moctezuma and other key indigenous people who participated in those first encounters. Chialpahin's Conquest is thus not only the first complete modern English translation of López de Gómara's La conquista, an invaluable source in itself of information about the conquest and native peoples; it also adds Chimalpahin's unique perspective of Nahua culture to what has traditionally been a very Hispanic portrayal of the conquest.

About the Author

Susan Schroeder is the Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane. Anne J. Cruz is Professor of Spanish at the University of Miami. Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois. David E. Tavárez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College.