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..., 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... Villa de la Vera Cruz.” Soon he heard that there was an overlord, an emperor, whose name he understood 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...

... 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...

... . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The so-called Penacho de Moctezuma has been a source of mystery for centuries. Did this feather headdress actually belong to Moctezuma? Is it really a headdress, or is it a banner or some other form of regalia? Was it a “gift” to the Spanish conqueror...

... 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...

... Davies 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...

... 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...

... of such figures as Cortés, Pizarro, Moctezuma, and Atahualpa are riddled with errors, and they possess much less informational value than the contemporary accounts of Spanish chroniclers. However, Schlesinger correctly asserts that these sketches “provide a unique example of the information disseminated about...

...-Hispanic Mesoamerica that were originally presented in Japanese (1979, 1980, and 1984). His principal sources include the second part of the Códice Mendocino, the Matrícula de Tributos, and the “Información sobre los tributos que los indios pagaban a Moctezuma” (1554). He employs these three sources...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...) or repetitive cyclical view, reflects quite clearly a progression of political ambition from heirs 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...

... includes essays from leading scholars as well as lavish illustrations. The chapters vary in focus through the centuries according to the shifting balance of disaster and rebirth. In looking at the Aztec capital, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma describes both the sacred space of the temple complex, revealed...

... 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...

... 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...