..., especially in the realm of tribute collection, compare to that in other communities and regions within and beyond the Basin of Mexico, given that a number of historians have examined colonial indigenous governance. After Moctezuma , nevertheless, is a significant contribution to the literature on colonial...

...Amber Brian Verdades y mentiras en torno a don Diego de Mendoza Austria Moctezuma . By María Castañeda de la Paz . Mexico City : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas ; Tenango de Doria, Mexico : Universidad Intercultural del Estado de...

...Charles Gibson Información sobre los tributos que los indios pagaban a Moctezuma, año 1554 . By Scholes France V. and Adams Eleanor B. . Mexico City , 1957 . José Porrúa e Hijos . Documentos para la Historia del México Colonial, No. 4 . Index . Pp. 236 . Paper...

... modern editions. Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Instrucción reservada que el Obispo-Virrey Juan de Ortega Montañés dió a su sucesor en el mando el Conde de Moctezuma . Edited with an introduction by Martin Norman F. . México , 1965 . Editorial Jus . Bibliography...

...Susan Kellogg Moctezuma’s Children: Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520 – 1700 . By Chipman Donald E. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xxiii , 200 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . © 2006...

... was Mutezuma but whom the Spaniards came to call Moctezuma. On November 7, 1519, Cortés and his motley band came through the pass in the sierras above Amecameca and saw, spread out before them, a valley enclosing a lake, which was ringed with a number of towns. On an island in the lake was a large city shining...

... the perception of the other” (p. 252). The Spanish improvise the conquest while the Aztecs ritualize it. The heart of this aggressively bright study is the chapter “Conquest,” where Todorov argues that Cortes and Moctezuma Xocoyotzin represented two major and distinct forms of communication which contributed...

... of historical development in the Aztec world. The most convincing and compassionate portrayal of a personality in this study is not Hernán Cortés but Moctezuma II. Padden’s central thesis is not original—that Moctezuma’s initial response was conditioned by his fear that Cortés was the returned Quetzalcóatl...

... inexorably wins. There appears to be pedestrian antiquarian pedantry in statements like, “the Aztecs attached considerable importance to the city, and Moctezuma II was even married to a Toltec Princess, later known as Doña María Miahuaxochitzin, who was the mother of Don Pedro Moctezuma, the first Conde de...

... interesting is Byam Davies’ discussion of their similar strategic positions in the period of Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II. From the point of view of the last rulers of Tenochtitlán, the independent areas were serious threats to Aztec internal communication, and the late imperial policy was to eat away...

... the honor of inclusion to Indian worthies like Moctezuma, Atahualpa, and the redoubtable Brazilian chief Quoniambec. The present work features Thevet’s six sketches of Indian notables and an equal number of lives of European explorers—Columbus, Magellan, Cortés, Pizarro, Albuquerque, and Vespucci—together...

... ceremonies and festivals. Although readers may quibble with particular details of Kobayashi’s reconstruction and interpretation of Moctezuma’s tribute register for specific regions, taken together, the resulting analyses appear reasonable. Even with the conjectural analysis, the total view of the tribute...

...H. R. Harvey The Great Temple of Tenochtitlán: Center and Periphery in the Aztec World . By Broda Johanna , Carrasco David , and Moctezuma Eduardo Matos . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1988 . Notes. Figures. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv...

... interpretation of events. He gives greater emphasis to the role of Cortés; presents the Spanish point of view regarding the looting of Moctezuma s treasure, the Alvarado massacre, and the death of Moctezuma; and adds brief passages that give a justification of the conquest as carrying out the will of God. Susan...

...Carol Damian Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods . Edited by Berrin Kathleen and Pasztory Elizabeth . London : Thames and Hudson , 1994 . Illustrations. 288 pp. Paper . $24.95 . The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan . By Moctezuma Eduardo...

... to rulers and to a sequence of secular goals, i.e., conquest (inner = geschichtliche Zielsetzung). She shows how the surrender of Moctezuma was interpreted respectively as an excuse for the lack of Tlaxcalan support and as a personal failure of the Aztec Emperor to be the true heir of the legacy...

... at the Aztec capital, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma describes both the sacred space of the temple complex, revealed by archaeological excavations, as well as the everyday life of Mexica commoners, as recounted in the codices. Matos Moctezuma notes the 1325 solar eclipse at the founding of Tenochtitlan, which...

... of the Amerindian past while repudiating contemporary Indians, Cervantes laid the foundations of two of the most enduring themes of Mexican creole patriotism. Sonia Rose writes on the physical and moral written portraits of Moctezuma offered by Cervantes de Salazar, López de Gomara, and Díaz del Castillo. Rose...

... continue to make up 90 percent of the land owners but hold only 17 percent of the land? Do the young women continue to leave for San Salvador trusting to find a job but discovering only the despair of prostitution? Does Cortés continue to defeat Moctezuma in the dance of the Conquest? Is it still sad...

.... The Quetzalcoatl myth, in particular, is discussed in detail. Horcasitas then presents a history of the Aztec empire. He describes the Aztec migration from legendary Aztlán, their life as a subject people to Culhuacan and Azcapotazlco, the period of empire-building, especially during the reigns of Moctezuma...