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True History of the Conquest of New Spain

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ISBN-10: 160384290X

ISBN-13: 9781603842907

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Janet Burke, Ted Humphrey

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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 Díaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and frequent cruelty of Hernándo Cortés 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 the Aztecs in Mexico, and compares Díaz's version of events…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

D�az del Castillo was a soldier in the army of Hern�n Cort�s. He is best known for writing a classic memoir of the conquest of Mexico.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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on the Translation
Figures Prominent in Bernal D�az del Castillo's True History
Timeline for the Conquest of Mexico
Sources and Further Reading
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
I Am Bernal D�az del Castillo
A Gentleman Named Hernando Cort�s
On the Tenth Day of February, 1519, We Set Sail
I Am the Spaniard
Dona Marina, They Spread It around That She Had Died
We Ordered the Creation, Founding, and Settling of a Town
The Caciques and Papas Saw How Just We Were
We Left for Tlaxcala
We Entered This City on the 23rd of September, 1519
Our Road Was through Cholula
The Great Montezuma Stepped Out of the Litter
To Secure Our Lives, We Should Seize Montezuma
All Men Generally Desire Gold
P�nfilo de Narv�ez Was Coming by Sea
Alvarado Was Besieged and Mexico Was in Revolt
In Mexico They Elevated Another Lord
Guatemuz Should Come in Peace
Without the Brigantines We Could Not Invade
For Ninety-Three Days We Were Constantly Battling
Epilogue