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The conquest of New Spain / Bernal Díaz ; translated with an introduction by J.M. Cohen Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584

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Author
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584
Subjects
Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.; Cort?s, Hern?n, -- 1485-1547
Contents
  • Machine derived contents note: Contents
  • Acknowledgments 000
  • Introduction: The Dream of the Conquistador and a Book of Desire and Destruction
  • Davíd Carrasco 000
  • Preface by Bernal Díaz del Castillo 000
  • The Expedition under Cordova 000
  • Expedition under Grijalva 000
  • Expedition under Cortés: Intrigues in Cuba 000
  • Cortés Finds an Interpreter 000
  • Cortés Attacks the Ceiba Tree 000
  • Enter Doña Marina 000
  • Signs of Empire 000
  • Spaniards Viewed as Gods 000
  • Destroy the Ships 000
  • War in Tlaxcala 000
  • The Spaniards' Plea for Peace and Alliance 000
  • Ambassadors from Montezuma Arrive 000
  • Baptizing Tlaxcalan Women 000
  • The Massacre at Cholula 000
  • The March to Mexico 000
  • Arrival in the Splendid City of Tenochtitlan 000
  • Montezuma in Captivity 000
  • Games with Montezuma 000
  • Cortés Struggles with Narv ez 000
  • Spanish Massacre of the Dancers 000
  • Spanish Defeat and the Noche Triste 000
  • The Return to the Valley and the Alliance with Texcoco 000
  • The Siege Begins from Texcoco 000
  • Indian Allies and Spanish Disasters 000
  • Dismal Drums and Human Sacrifices 000
  • The Fall of Mexico and the Surrender of Guatemoc 000
  • The City as a Wasteland: Taking Women 000
  • Torturing Guatemoc for Treasure, Malicious Graffiti 000
  • Zapotec Fury 000
  • Pedro de Alvarado Attacks in Guatemala 000
  • Turmoil in Chiapas 000
  • The Arrival of the Twelve Franciscans 000
  • Mexico City Becomes a Roman Circus 000
  • Essays 000[! Designer: You might want to format this differently, as a heading. !]
  • Bernal Díaz del Castillo: Soldier, Eyewitness, Polemicist
  • Rolena Adorno 000
  • Cortés and the Sacred Ceiba: A Maya Axis Mundi
  • Colonial Sexuality: Of Women, Men, and Mestizaje
  • Karen Vieira Powers 000
  • La Malinche as Palimpsest II
  • Sandra Cypess 000
  • The Exaggerations of Human Sacrifice
  • Tenochtitlan as a Political Capital and World Symbol
  • Human Sacrifice/Debt Payments from the Aztec Point of View
  • Spaniards as Gods: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
  • Davíd Carrasco 000.
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Read associated articles: Andres de la Tovilla, Aztec, Aztec society, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Cannibalism in pre-Columbian America, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, Huitzilopochtli, Human sacrifice in Aztec culture, Isla de Sacrificios, Juan de Grijalva, Lake Texcoco, Macuahuitl, María Estrada, Spanish conquest of Yucatán, Tenochtitlan, Tetzilacatl
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