Conquest of Mexico
Author: William H. Prescott
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1434405354
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Author: William H. Prescott
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1434405354
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 714
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Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 1056
ISBN-13: 0307769763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. "Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."
Author: William Hickling Prescott
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 544
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Miruna Achim
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017-12
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 149620395X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant cultural as well as political independence, and the museum was expected to become a repository of national objects whose stories would provide the nation with an identity and teach its people to become citizens. Miruna Achim reconstructs the early years of the museum as an emerging object shaped by the logic and goals of historical actors who soon found themselves debating the origin of American civilizations, the nature of the American races, and the rightful ownership of antiquities. Achim also brings to life an array of fascinating characters--antiquarians, naturalists, artists, commercial agents, bureaucrats, diplomats, priests, customs officers, local guides, and academics on both sides of the Atlantic--who make visible the rifts and tensions intrinsic to the making of the Mexican nation and its cultural politics in the country's postcolonial era.
Author: Lew Wallace
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 562
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Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0299141632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Spanish Peru, 1532–1560 was published in 1968, it was acclaimed as an innovative study of the early Spanish presence in Peru. It has since become a classic of the literature in Spanish American social history, important in helping to introduce career-pattern history to the field and notable for its broad yet intimate picture of the functioning of an entire society. In this second edition, James Lockhart provides a new conclusion and preface, updated terminology, and additional footnotes.
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Published: 1968
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 578
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