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Letters from Mexico
Letters from Mexico
Author: Hernan Cortes
Hernán Cortés's Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés's journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden's English translation has been prepared from a close examinati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300037241
ISBN-10: 0300037244
Publication Date: 9/10/1987
Pages: 578
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Gives a 1st hand history of how cortez conquered the Aztecs. Includes all sorts of personal views and also political "views".
Interesting. Necessary for any serious student of new world history. Main problem is he writes in the Spanish empire version of "Federalise".


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