The broken spears : the Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico /
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| Uniform title: | Visión de los vencidos. English. |
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| Edition: | Expanded and updated ed. |
| Imprint: | Boston : Beacon Press, c1992. |
| Description: | xlix, 196 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5369748 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards
- Ch. 2. First Reports of the Spaniards' Arrival
- Ch. 3. The Messengers' Journeys
- Ch. 4. Motecuhzoma's Terror and Apathy
- Ch. 5. The Spaniards March on Tlaxcala and Cholula
- Ch. 6. The Gifts of Gold: The God Tezcatlipoca Appears
- Ch. 7. The Spaniards Are Welcomed in Tezcoco
- Ch. 8. The Spaniards Arrive in Tenochtitlan
- Ch. 9. The Massacre in the Main Temple during the Fiesta of Toxcatl
- Ch. 10. The Night of Sorrows
- Ch. 11. The Siege of Tenochtitlan
- Ch. 12. Spanish Raids into the Besieged City
- Ch. 13. The Surrender of Tenochtitlan
- Ch. 14. The Story of the Conquest as Told by the Anonymous Authors of Tlatelolco
- Ch. 15. Elegies on the Fall of the City
- Ch. 16. Aftermath.
