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The True History of The Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
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Description for The True History of The Conquest of New Spain
Paperback. Translator(s): Burke, Janet; Humphrey, Ted. Num Pages: 498 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and frequent cruelty of Hernando Cortes and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezuma's Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New World.
The concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins, history, and methods of the Spanish enterprise in the Americas; it also discusses the nature of the conflict between the Spanish and ... Read more
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Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
498
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
498
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781603842907
SKU
V9781603842907
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About Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
Janet Burke is Associate Dean in Barrett, the Honors College, and Lincoln Fellow for Ethics and Latin American Intellectual History in the Lincoln Center for Ethics, at Arizona State University. Ted Humphrey is President's Professor, Barrett Professor, and Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Latin American Intellectual History at Arizona State University.
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Bernal Diaz's True History of the Conquest of New Spain, the chronicle of an 'ordinary' soldier in Hernando Cortes's army, is the only complete account (other than Cortes's own) that we have of the Spanish conquest of ancient Mexico. Although it is neither so 'true' nor so unassumingly direct as its author would have us believe, it is unmistakably the ... Read more