Top
Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
Customer Reviews Read Reviews
Write a Review
What is included with this book?
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Introduction: The Dream of the Conquistador and a Book of Desire and Destruction | p. xi |
| Preface by Bernal Diaz del Castillo | p. xxviii |
| The Expedition under Cordova | p. 1 |
| The Expedition under Grijalva | p. 14 |
| Expedition under Cortes Begins: Intrigues in Cuba | p. 17 |
| Cortes Finds an Interpreter | p. 28 |
| Cortes Attacks the Ceiba Tree | p. 40 |
| Enter Dona Marina | p. 48 |
| Signs of Empire | p. 52 |
| Spaniards Viewed as Gods | p. 64 |
| Cortes Destroys the Ships | p. 84 |
| War in Tlaxcala | p. 90 |
| The Spaniards' Plea for Peace and Alliance | p. 98 |
| Ambassadors from Montezuma Arrive | p. 110 |
| Baptizing Tlaxcalan Women | p. 119 |
| The Massacre at Cholula | p. 131 |
| The March to Mexico | p. 147 |
| Arrival in the Splendid City of Tenochtitlan | p. 156 |
| Montezuma in Captivity | p. 184 |
| Games with Montezuma | p. 193 |
| Cortes Struggles with Narvaez | p. 209 |
| Spanish Massacre of the Dancers | p. 211 |
| Spanish Defeat and the Noche Triste | p. 225 |
| The Return to the Valley and the Alliance with Texcoco | p. 239 |
| The Siege Begins from Texcoco | p. 263 |
| Indian Allies and Spanish Disasters | p. 277 |
| Dismal Drums and Human Sacrifices | p. 287 |
| The Fall of Mexico and the Surrender of Guatemoc | p. 296 |
| The City as a Wasteland: Taking Women | p. 303 |
| Torturing Guatemoc for Treasure: Malicious Graffiti | p. 311 |
| Zapotec Fury | p. 326 |
| Pedro de Alvarado Attacks in Guatemala | p. 329 |
| Turmoil in Chiapas | p. 342 |
| The Arrival of the Twelve Franciscans | p. 354 |
| Mexico City Becomes a Roman Circus | p. 362 |
| Maps | p. 373 |
| Essays | |
| Bernal Diaz del Castillo: Soldier, Eyewitness, Polemicist | p. 389 |
| Cortes and the Sacred Ceiba: A Maya Axis Mundi | p. 399 |
| Colonial Sexuality: Of Women, Men, and Mestizaje | p. 405 |
| La Malinche as Palimpsest II | p. 418 |
| The Exaggerations of Human Sacrifice | p. 439 |
| Tenochtitlan as a Political Capital and World Symbol | p. 448 |
| Human Sacrifice/Debt Payments from the Aztec Point of View | p. 458 |
| Spaniards as Gods: The Return of Quetzalcoatl | p. 466 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
Need Help? Copyright © 1999-2024