{"product_id":"chimalpahins-conquest-susan-schroeder-9780804769488","title":"Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La Conquista de Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents the story of Hernando Cort駸's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrancisco Lez de Gara's monumental \u003ci\u003eHistoria de las Indias y Conquista de M騙ico\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, \u003ci\u003eLa conquista\u003c\/i\u003e fell into the hands of the seventeenth-century Nahua historian Chimalpahin, who took it upon himself to make a copy of the tome. As he copied, Chimalpahin rewrote large sections of \u003ci\u003eLa conquista\u003c\/i\u003e, adding information about Emperor Moctezuma and other key indigenous people who participated in those first encounters. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChialpahin's Conquest\u003c\/i\u003e is thus not only the first complete modern English translation of Lez de Gara's \u003ci\u003eLa conquista\u003c\/i\u003e, an invaluable source in itself of information about the conquest and native peoples; it also adds Chimalpahin's unique perspective of Nahua culture to what has traditionally been a very Hispanic portrayal of the conquest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Schroeder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804769486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804769488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011","brand":"Susan Schroeder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926229582079,"sku":"9780804769488","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0f3bc8f6-41ea-49ef-a13a-13e783eb97ca.jpg?v=1681081917","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chimalpahins-conquest-susan-schroeder-9780804769488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}