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When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history
- Title
- When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.
- Author
- Restall, Matthew, 1964-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xxxiii, 526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, genealogical tables; 24 cm
- Summary
- "On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cortés's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses "the Meeting"--as Restall dubs their first encounter--as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés's and Montezuma's posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived--leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself" --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-508) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Invention -- Mysterious kindness -- No small amazement -- Social grace and monstrous ritual -- The empire in his hands -- The greatest enterprises -- Principal plunderers -- The epic boxer -- Without mercy or purpose -- Epilogue: Halls of the Montezumas -- Appendix: Language and label, cast and dynasty.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1102
- ISBN
- 9780062427267
- 0062427261
- OCLC
- 1012729478
- Author
- Restall, Matthew, 1964- author.
- Title
- When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-508) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1519-1540
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1102