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Author: Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
Publisher: University of Colorado
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first English edition of Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana traces development of colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land and labour laws in bureaucrats' favour.
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 029278306X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre-conquest Aztec belief in the warrior's paradise and in the virtue of sacrifice. This volume contains an exact transcription of the thirty-six Nahuatl song texts, accompanied by authoritative English translations. Bierhorst includes all the numerals (which give interpretive clues) in the Nahuatl texts and also differentiates the text from scribal glosses. His translations are thoroughly annotated to help readers understand the imagery and allusions in the texts. The volume also includes a helpful introduction and a larger essay, "On the Translation of Aztec Poetry," that discusses many relevant historical and literary issues. In Bierhorst's expert translation and interpretation, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain emerges as a song of resistance by a conquered people and the recollection of a glorious past. Announcing a New Digital Initiative http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/utdigital/ UT Press, in a new collaboration with the University of Texas Libraries, will publish an interactive digital adaptation of the Ballads that will expand the scholarly content beyond what is possible to publish in book form. The web site, to launch in conjunction with the book in July 2009, includes all of the printed book plus scans of the original codex, a normative transcription, and space to interact with the author and other scholars, as well as art, audio, a map, and other related material. The digital Ballads will be open access, bringing one of the university’s rare holdings to scholars around the world.
Author: Davíd Carrasco
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2009-01-16
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0826342884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España, offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and religious forces that drove the great cultural encounter between Spain and the Americas known as the "conquest of Mexico." Besides containing important passages, scenes, and events excluded from other abridgements, this edition includes eight useful interpretive essays that address indigenous religions and cultural practices, sexuality during the early colonial period, the roles of women in indigenous cultures, and analysis of the political and economic purposes behind Diaz del Castillo's narrative. A series of maps illuminate the routes of the conquistadors, the organization of indigenous settlements, the struggle for the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, as well as the disastrous Spanish journey to Honduras. The information compiled for this volume offers increased accessibility to the original text, places it in a wider social and narrative context, and encourages further learning, research, and understanding.
Author: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: José R. Benítez
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2003-06-26
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 014191307X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital.
Author: Pedro Alonso O'Crouley
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription of the Kingdom of New Spain of 1774 is a rare, exciting, and colorful addition to the field of Hispanic literature. The original Spanish text, entitled Idea compendiosa del Reyno de Nueva España, is here translated into English and brings to the reader many historical and social aspects of colonial Mexico.
Author: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-26
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1108017053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico (1519-1522); in this volume foot soldier Díaz joins Cortés' army.
Author: Emilio Kourí
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780804739399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a history of the conflict-ridden privatization of communal land in the pueblo of Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the second half of the 19th century.
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780811213462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsidered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.
