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The broken spears : the Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico
Visión de los vencidos. English
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In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vital...
In this updated edition of the classic THE BROKEN SPEARS, Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors. --Publishers description.
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- edited and with an introduction by Miguel León-Portilla ; with a foreword by J. Jorge Klor de Alva ; translated from Nahuatl into Spanish by Angel María Garibay K. ; English translation by Lysander Kemp ; illustrations, adapted from original codices paintings, by Alberto Beltran
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- Expanded and updated ed
- Boston : Beacon Press, [1992]
- ©1992
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- xlix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807055018, 9780807055014
- OCLC
- ocm24542950
- Translation of: Visión de los vencidos.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.
- Translation of: Visión de los vencidos.
- Ch. 1. Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards -- Ch. 2. First Reports of the Spaniards' Arrival -- Ch. 3. The Messengers' Journeys -- Ch. 4. Motecuhzoma's Terror and Apathy -- Ch. 5. The Spaniards March on Tlaxcala and Cholula -- Ch. 6. The Gifts of Gold: The God Tezcatlipoca Appears -- Ch. 7. The Spaniards Are Welcomed in Tezcoco -- Ch. 8. The Spaniards Arrive in Tenochtitlan -- Ch. 9. The Massacre in the Main Temple during the Fiesta of Toxcatl -- Ch. 10. The Night of Sorrows -- Ch. 11. The Siege of Tenochtitlan -- Ch. 12. Spanish Raids into the Besieged City -- Ch. 13. The Surrender of Tenochtitlan -- Ch. 14. The Story of the Conquest as Told by the Anonymous Authors of Tlatelolco -- Ch. 15. Elegies on the Fall of the City -- Ch. 16. Aftermath