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  • STRIKE FEAR IN THE LAND
    The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraughtwith intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of itas an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whoseoutcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A criticalreappraisal is long overdue, one that calls for us to reconsider events andcircumstances in the light...
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    44,00 €

  • ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA: AMERICAN TRAILBLAZER
    In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Álvar NÚÑez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca's account of t...
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  • AZTEC AND MAYA APOCALYPSES
    MARK Z. CHRISTENSEN
    The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apocalypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity’s long history. Thus, when ecclesiastics broughtthe Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in the Americas, both groups adapted it further, reflecting new political and social circumstances. Thereligious texts in Aztec and ...
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    71,59 €

  • THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO
    PETER B. VILLELLA
    The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makesclear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed.In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how ...
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    102,27 €