When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.
2018
F1230 .R47 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780062427267 (hardcover)
0062427261 (hardcover)
0062427261 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xxxiii, 526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Call Number
F1230 .R47 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
972/.020922
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"--Jacket flap.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-508) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.