Invasion and Transformation - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico

Klappentext Invasion and Transformation examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political! social! cultural! and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular! contributors consider the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered! both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries. Chapters address the various roles (real and imagined) of Moteuczoma! Cort?s! and Malinche in the fall of the Aztecs; the representation of history in colonial art; and the complex cultural transformations that actually took place. Including full-color reproductions of seventeenth-century paintings of the Conquest! Invasion and Transformation will appeal to scholars and students of Latin American history and anthropology! art history! colonial literature! and transatlantic studies. Zusammenfassung Examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. This book considers the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered, both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries.

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• Authors: Rebecca P. Brienen, Rebecca Parker Brienen, Rebecca Parker (EDT)/ Jackson Brienen
• Assisted by: Rebecca P. Brienen (Editor), Rebecca Parker Brienen (Editor), Margaret Jackson (Editor), Margaret A. Jackson (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of Colorado
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2007
• EAN: 9780870818868
• ISBN: 978-0-87081-886-8
• No. of pages: 231
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Mesoamerican Worlds: From the
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories