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Fifth sun : a new history of the Aztecs /

Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story, and the story of what happened afterwards, has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. Aft...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Townsend, Camilla, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Aztecs > History.
Aztecs > First contact with Europeans.
Aztecs > Historiography.
Mexico > History > Conquest, 1519-1540.
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • The trail from the Seven Caves (before 1299)
  • People of the valley (1350s-1450s)
  • The city on the lake (1470-1518)
  • Strangers to us people here
  • A war to end all wars (1520-1521)
  • Early days (1520s-1550s)
  • Crisis: the Indians talk back (1560s)
  • The grandchildren (1570s-1620s)
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: How scholars study the Aztecs.