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Hispanic American Historical Review (1940) 20 (4): 517–550.
Published: 01 November 1940
View articletitled, Two Articles on the same topic: Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Popularism in Spanish Historiography and Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Criticisms of the History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Francisco López de <span class="search-highlight">Gómara</span>
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for article titled, Two Articles on the same topic: Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Popularism in Spanish Historiography and Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Criticisms of the History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Francisco López de <span class="search-highlight">Gómara</span>
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Histories of Infamy: Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 740–741.
Published: 01 November 2007
...John F. Schwaller Histories of Infamy: Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism . By Roa-De-La-Carrera Cristián A. . Translated by Sessions Scott . Foreward by Carrasco David . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2005 . Index . xviii , 264...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 475–477.
Published: 01 August 1965
...Robert S. Chamberlain In order to keep the book in proper perspective about the life of Cortés Simpson has omitted from his translation chapters of the Historia which deal with Aztec society and religion which Gómara repeated from Motolinia’s work. Scenes from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala are most...
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Historia de las Indias (1552)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 725–726.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Veronica Rodriguez These French scholars' comparative analysis of the diverse versions of the Historia contributes to our understanding of the material history of Gómara's work. Experts on Gómara's Historia will find particularly useful the arduous editorial work, in which differences among...
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Prescott and His Sources: a Critical Appraisal
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 59–74.
Published: 01 February 1968
...James D. Cockcroft Fourth, Prescott is similarly inaccurate in citing both López de Gómara and Las Casas to substantiate his statement that stories were told to persuade the Indians of the Spaniards’ need for gold (166). Actually the bishop attacked the chaplain for the deception of the story...
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Motecuzoma Xocoyotl, Hernán Cortés, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo: The Construction of an Arrest
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 149–183.
Published: 01 May 1995
... the letter, Cortés had to portray a monolithic “empire” with Moctezuma as its absolute ruler whose traditio imperii bound the whole people. Both Francisco López de Gómara and Bernal Díaz del Castillo comment that these changes of tactics were the vacillations of an indecisive and superstitious mind. 12...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 307–309.
Published: 01 May 1973
... of a series of Studies in Spanish Literature: after so unpromising a start he might reconsider his plans and revert to more recognizably ovine activities. The two discoveries which the author claims are: (1) that Garcilaso’s references to Cieza and Gómara do not correspond to the printed texts, and (2...
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The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Press 2006 Ricardo Padrón has performed a heroic and innovative work of research by returning to well-known works and reading the boring bits. The kernel of his work is a comparative study of the descriptions of the New World by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Francisco López de Gómara, and Bartolomé...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 457.
Published: 01 August 1967
...T. G. P. Cortés. The Life of the Conqueror by His Secretary . By López de Gómara Francisco . Edited and translated by Simpson Lesley Byrd . Berkeley , 1966 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 425 . Paper. $2.45...
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Das Bellum Iustum des Hernán Cortés in Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 May 1977
... as a surprise to most scholars of Mexican history. Francisco López de Gómara’s account is interpreted as an extended literary version of Cortes’ letters; the historian took nothing of importance from other sources. Further, Bernal Díaz del Castillo—despite his pretended refutation of Gómara—simply plagiarized...
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La historia del Mundo Nuevo
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 130–131.
Published: 01 February 1969
...’ explorations and the early history of Spain in America. This account leans heavily on the works of Oviedo, López de Gómara, Peter Martyr, and Cieza de León, all of which were probably familiar to Benzoni because they appeared in Italian editions. The second book is the closest thing to “pure Benzoni.” Most...
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The Origins of the Conquistadores of Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 259–283.
Published: 01 May 1994
...; and Icaza, Diccionario , no. 169. 18 Díaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera , chap. 53; Cervantes de Salazar, Crónica de la Nueva España , pt. 3, chaps. 18, 20; Torquemada, Monarquía indiana , pt. 4, chap. 24; López de Gomara, Historia de la conquista , chap. 38; Herrera, Historia general , pt...
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The Conquest of the Weast India (1578)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1941) 21 (3): 467–468.
Published: 01 August 1941
...Robert S. Chamberlain The Conquest of the Weast India (1578) . By de Gómara Francisco López . Translated by Nicholas Thomas . With an Introduction by Priestley Herbert Ingram . ( New York : Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints , 1940 . Pp. xxi , 405 , index 3 pp. $7.50...
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Historia de la conquista de México
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1945) 25 (4): 481–482.
Published: 01 November 1945
...Lesley Byrd Simpson Historia de la conquista de México . Por de Gómara Francisco López . Con una introducción y notas por Ramírez Cabañas D. Joaquín . ( Mexico : Editorial Pedro Robredo , 1943 . 2 vols. Pp. 350 ; 366 . Index of proper names . Paper. $30.00 m/n...
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Historia General de las Indias “Híspanla Vitrix” cuya segunda parte corresponde a la conquista de Méjico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1955) 35 (4): 555.
Published: 01 November 1955
...Guillermo Cespedes Historia General de las Indias “Híspanla Vitrix” cuya segunda parte corresponde a la conquista de Méjico . By Lopez De Gomara Francisco . Modernización del texto antiguo por Guibelalde Pilar . Con. unas notas prologales de Aguilera Emiliano M. . Barcelona...
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English Interpreters of the Iberian New World from Purchas to Stevens: A Bibliographical Study, 1603—1726
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 174.
Published: 01 February 1976
... a detailed understanding of the seventeenth-century English texts of Las Casas or Gómara, on the one hand, and on the other those readers who will relish a bibliographic essay on the subject. The years were ones when every translator was editor, and translations were as often as not transformations...
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Cortés
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (3): 514.
Published: 01 August 1976
... favorably with the author’s finely crafted and researched Heroic Mexico . Using only published sources, with heavy reliance on Prescott, Bernal Díaz, López de Gómara, and the letters of Cortés, Johnson races through the extraordinary accomplishments and career of the Conqueror in only 226 pages...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 217.
Published: 01 February 1970
... by a foreigner before Humboldt. Non-Hispanic Europe was dismally ignorant of conditions in the Indies, as Spain intended when she established the policy of excluding foreigners from her overseas dominions. Europeans might consult the sixteenth-century chroniclers such as Gómara, Herrera, and Garcilaso de la...
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Historiografía indiana
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 341–342.
Published: 01 May 1994
... of the work, Esteve Barba is concise on the early historians and official chroniclers. Figures such as Pedro Mártir de Anglería, Francisco López de Gómara, José de Acosta, Juan López de Velasco, and Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas are succinctly presented. In addition, Esteve Barba traces the development...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (1): 186–187.
Published: 01 February 1990
... or destruction of “subversive” texts. The book also contains excellent analyses of the “new historical discourse” introduced by the conquest: the rise of the “messianic and evangelical imperialism” of writers like Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Francisco López de Gómara; the opposed mystical, apocalyptic vision...
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