{"product_id":"chimalpahins-conquest-a-nahua-historians-rewriting-of-francisco-lopez-de-gomaras-la-conquista-de-mexico-hardback-9780804769488","title":"Chimalpahin's Conquest; A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez De Gomara's La Conquista De Mexico (Hardback) 9780804769488","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChimalpahin's Conquest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez De Gomara's La Conquista De Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan Schroeder (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804769488\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 July 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e536 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.857 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book will be of great value to scholars of the conquest of Mexico, colonial Latin America, and early modern Spanish and Mexican historiography. . . . They have done justice to the complexity and novelty of Chimalpahin's hybrid narrative while making it accessible to an English-speaking audience.\"—Glen Carman, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies \u0026amp; Researches on Spain, Portugal \u0026amp; Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eChimalpahin's Conquest\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the multi-ethnic voices of the colonial era in one text, forcing one to move beyond the 'vision of the vanquished' and some of the other 'myths of the conquest' to see indigenous people as conquerors in their own right.\"—Jason Dyck, \u003ci\u003eHistoire sociale \/ Social History\u003c\/i\u003e \"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. \u003ci\u003eChimalpahin's Conquest\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to the growing literature on the Conquest of Mexico.\"—Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrancisco López de Gómara's monumental \u003ci\u003eHistoria de las Indias y Conquista de México\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, \u003ci\u003eLa conquista\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLa conquista\u003c\/i\u003e, adding information about Emperor Moctezuma and other key indigenous people who participated in those first encounters. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChialpahin's Conquest\u003c\/i\u003e is thus not only the first complete modern English translation of López de Gómara's \u003ci\u003eLa conquista\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685308068120,"sku":"9780804769488","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chimalpahins-conquest-a-nahua-historians-rewriting-of-francisco-lopez-de-gomaras-la-conquista-de-mexico-hardback-9780804769488","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}