- Textbook Binding: 216 pages
- Publisher: Longman; 1 edition (17 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0582068290
- ISBN-13: 978-0582068292
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 785,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`thoroughly enjoyable history. Ross Hassig's knowledge of sources allows a successful synthesis of new scholarship and primary accounts, while the focus on the political and economic background to conquest ensures that attention is given to explanation, not just narrative.'
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This pioneering work examines the Conquest of Mexico from the first Spanish movement into the New World to the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Most historians necessarily depend on first-hand Spanish accounts, which has led to a highly distorted -- and essentially implausible -- view of the Conquest as a near-miraculous victory for European cultural, spiritual and technological superiority. Professor Hassig reintroduces the Indians into their own history, showing that it was crucially their goals, organization and internal divisions that were responsible for the Aztec defeat.
Vivid and engrossing, this book (launching a major new series) will prove as rewarding to general readers as to specialists.
Vivid and engrossing, this book (launching a major new series) will prove as rewarding to general readers as to specialists.
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
New research for this updated edition.
7 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
Ross Hassig's MEXICO AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST appears in its second updated edition to cover the role indigenous peoples played in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Primary sources display the experiences of the Indians of Mexico and survey the politics, economics, and social history of both peoples and their interactions, adding new research for this updated edition.
Diane C. Donovan
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Diane C. Donovan
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loss of a culture
28 Sep 2006
Format:Paperback
Hassig gives a new telling of how Mexico fell to the Spaniards. A tale of courage and brutality. The reader can certainly see bravery in the saga of how a relatively few conquistadors managed to outthink and outfight the Aztec empire. We also see glimpses into the character and resourcefulness of Hernan Cortes. And there is no shirking of the methods by which the Aztecs held together their empire, with the well known customs of human sacrifices. But the book also shows that Cortes and his men could on occasion match the Aztecs for savage behaviour.
There is somewhat of a sense of loss in the narrative. That much of the Aztec culture is now irretrievably gone. So different from the European societies of that time.
There is somewhat of a sense of loss in the narrative. That much of the Aztec culture is now irretrievably gone. So different from the European societies of that time.
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