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Levy, Buddy,
Cortés, Hernán,
Mexico
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Conquistador : Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the last stand of the Aztecs / / Buddy Levy.
Author:
Levy, Buddy, 1960-
Title:
Conquistador : Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the last stand of the Aztecs / / Buddy Levy.
Publisher:
New York : Bantam Books, 2008.
Description:
x, 429 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 22 cm.
Electronic Version:
Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip087/2007052178.html
Summary:
In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. In Tenochtitlán, the City of Dreams, Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of a complex and sophisticated civilization with fifteen million people, and commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astonishing military campaigns ever waged. Sometimes outnumbered thousands-to-one, Cortés repeatedly beat seemingly impossible odds. Journalist Levy meticulously researches the mix of cunning, courage, brutality, superstition, and finally disease that enabled Cortés and his men to survive.--From publisher description.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-411) and index.
Contents:
Setting out for New Spain and the serendipitous gift of language -- The battle with the Tabascans and the acquisition of La Malinche -- Montezuma's message -- The gambler stakes all : "either win the land, or die in the attempt" -- Into the mountains -- The massacre of Cholula -- The city of dreams -- City of sacrifice -- Seizure of empire -- Cortés and Montezuma -- Spaniard versus Spaniard -- The Festival of Toxcatl -- Montezuma's ironic fate -- La noche triste -- "Fortune favors the bold" -- "The great rash" -- Return to the Valley of Mexico -- The wooden serpent -- Encirclement -- The siege begins -- Clash of empires -- The last stand of the Aztecs.
Subject:
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.
Catalog Source No.:
(OCoLC)ocn185056591
ISBN:
9780553805383 (hbk.)
055380538X (hbk.)
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F1230 .L45 2008
American Indian, National Museum of
39088014667091
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