商品簡介
"Here we have a fascinating glimpse of a Nahua historian's version of a well-known conquest narrative, infusing it with detail from a more local, indigenous perspective, and informed by hindsight. Chimalpahin's Conquest is a significant contribution to the growing literature on the conquest of Mexico."
This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortes's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian.
Francisco Lopez de Gomara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de Mexico 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 Lopez de Gomara's great tome. As he copied, Chimalpahin rewrote large sections of La conquista, adding information about Emperor Moteuczoma and other key indigenous figures who participated in those first encounters.
Chimalpahin's Conquest is thus not only the first scholarly modern English translation of Lopez de Gomara's La conquista, an invaluable source in itself of information about the conquest and native peoples, but it also adds Chimalpahin's unique perspective of Nahua culture to what has traditionally been a very Hispanic portrayal of the conquest
作者簡介
Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University.
Anne J. Cruz is Professor of Spanish at the University of Miami
Cristian Roa-De-La-Carrera is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago
David E. Tavarez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College
