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- catalog abstract "Our familiar images of Mexico's conquest are powerful and enduring - bold and blood-thirsty Spanish conquistadors, nobly savage Aztecs lamenting their broken spears, the triumph and tragedy of Cortes and Moctezuma. But one story has not been told - and it is one that reshapes our entire vision of the conquest. It is the Maya story of the Spanish creation of a colony in the ancient Maya homeland of Yucatan. Maya Conquistador tells this tale through a collection of unique first-hand accounts - most of them previously untranslated from the original Maya texts - written from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. In it are surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards, but also Mayas, reconstituting their own sophisticated governance and society; and the conquest was not one catastrophic event, but the story of the survival of a vital and complex civilization evolving over centuries of contact with the Spanish and other peoples. Out of this new chapter in history, the Maya emerge not as passive victims of European expansion, but as astute observers of their own past and participants in a rich tradition of cultural resilience.".
- catalog contributor b10967196.
- catalog coverage "Mexico History Conquest, 1519-1540.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "But one story has not been told - and it is one that reshapes our entire vision of the conquest. It is the Maya story of the Spanish creation of a colony in the ancient Maya homeland of Yucatan. Maya Conquistador tells this tale through a collection of unique first-hand accounts - most of them previously untranslated from the original Maya texts - written from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. In it are surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards, but also Mayas, reconstituting their own sophisticated governance and society; and the conquest was not one catastrophic event, but the story of the survival of a vital and complex civilization evolving over centuries of contact with the Spanish and other peoples.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.".
- catalog description "Our familiar images of Mexico's conquest are powerful and enduring - bold and blood-thirsty Spanish conquistadors, nobly savage Aztecs lamenting their broken spears, the triumph and tragedy of Cortes and Moctezuma.".
- catalog description "Out of this new chapter in history, the Maya emerge not as passive victims of European expansion, but as astute observers of their own past and participants in a rich tradition of cultural resilience.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Contexts & conquests. Conquests. Recontextualizing calamity -- pt. 2. The Maya accounts of the conquest of Yucatan. The insinuated conquest: the Chontal account from Acalan-Tixchel. Conquest as chronology: the Annals of Oxkutzcab. The community view: the Calkini account. Maya conquistadors: the Pech accounts from Chicxulub and Yaxkukul. The cruel cycle: the accounts from the books of Chilam Balam. A hybrid perspective: The accounts by Gaspar Antonio Chi. The politics of conquest: the letters of the Batabob to the King. Conquest as negotiation: the perspective of petitions.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 254 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Maya conquistador.".
- catalog identifier "0807055069 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Maya conquistador.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Maya conquistador.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico History Conquest, 1519-1540.".
- catalog spatial "Mexico".
- catalog subject "972/.02 21".
- catalog subject "Conquerors Mexico History Sources.".
- catalog subject "F1435 .R493 1998".
- catalog subject "Mayas History Sources.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Contexts & conquests. Conquests. Recontextualizing calamity -- pt. 2. The Maya accounts of the conquest of Yucatan. The insinuated conquest: the Chontal account from Acalan-Tixchel. Conquest as chronology: the Annals of Oxkutzcab. The community view: the Calkini account. Maya conquistadors: the Pech accounts from Chicxulub and Yaxkukul. The cruel cycle: the accounts from the books of Chilam Balam. A hybrid perspective: The accounts by Gaspar Antonio Chi. The politics of conquest: the letters of the Batabob to the King. Conquest as negotiation: the perspective of petitions.".
- catalog title "Maya conquistador / Matthew Restall.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".