Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La Conquista de Mexico

by Francisco López de Gómara and Susan Schroeder

This volume presents the story of Hernando Cort s's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian.

Francisco L pez de G mara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de M xico was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip of Spain, La conquista fell into the hands of the seventeenth-century Nahua...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804769486
• ISBN13: 9780804769488
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"