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Chimalpahin's conquest : a Nahua historian's rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara's La conquista de México / edited and translated by Susan Schroeder [and others].
- Title
- Chimalpahin's conquest : a Nahua historian's rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara's La conquista de México / edited and translated by Susan Schroeder [and others].
- Author
- Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón, 1579-1660
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
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- Description
- xvi, 510 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Here we have a fascinating glimpse of a Nahua historian's version of a well-known conquest narrative, infusing it with detail from a more local, indigenous perspective, and informed by hindsight. Chimalpahin's Conquest is a significant contribution to the growing literature on the conquest of Mexico."
- This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortes's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian.
- Francisco Lopez de Gomara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de Mexico was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, La conquista fell into the hands of the seventeenth-century Nahua historian Chimalpahin, who took it upon himself to make a copy of Lopez de Gomara's great tome. As he copied, Chimalpahin rewrote large sections of La conquista, adding information about Emperor Moteuczoma and other key indigenous figures who participated in those first encounters.
- Chimalpahin's Conquest is thus not only the first scholarly modern English translation of Lopez de Gomara's La conquista, an invaluable source in itself of information about the conquest and native peoples, but it also adds Chimalpahin's unique perspective of Nahua culture to what has traditionally been a very Hispanic portrayal of the conquest --Book Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Series Chimalpahin
- Uniform Title
- Conquista de México. English
- University press scholarship online.
- Series Chimalpahin
- Alternative Title
- Conquista de México.
- Subject
- Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
- López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564
- Cortez, Fernando
- Crónica de la Nueva España (López de Gómara, Francisco)
- 1519-1540
- Nahuas > Social life and customs > Early works to 1800
- Nahua > Mœurs et coutumes > Ouvrages avant 1800
- Historiography
- Nahuas > Social life and customs
- Eroberung
- Mexico > History > Conquest, 1519-1540 > Early works to 1800
- Mexico > History > Historiography. > Conquest, 1519-1540
- Mexique > Histoire > 1519-1540 (Conquête) > Ouvrages avant 1800
- Mexique > Histoire > Historiographie. > 1519-1540 (Conquête)
- Mexico
- Mexiko
- Genre/Form
- Early works to 1800.
- Early works
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-485) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish manuscript.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. The history of Chimalpahin's "Conquista" manuscript / Susan Schroeder -- II. Reclaiming the Conquest : an assessment of Chimalpahin's modifications to La conquista de México / David E. Tavárez -- III. Francisco López de Gómara and La Conquista de México / Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera -- The conquest of Mexico / written by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón (Chimalpahin) Quauhtlehuanitzin.
- ISBN
- 9780804769488
- 0804769486
- LCCN
- 2010001469
- 40018199521
- OCLC
- 502158585
- SCSB-11831733
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library