Download or read book Culua written by Samantha Wood and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Samantha Wood's earliest childhood memories is of her grandfather giving her a wobbly rubber map of Mexico that pulled apart like a jigsaw puzzle and telling her the story of the nomadic Culúa-Mexica who became known as the Aztecs. Suddenly the wanderers were a people with a new identity, a home ...Like her ancestors, Samantha yearns to find a place she can call home. Raised on the enticing glimpses of a dark and magical land conjured up by her Mexican mother's bedtime stories what begins as a visit to her enigmatic grandmother becomes a quest to find out what it means to be Mexican. Samantha's transformation to Samantita isn't quite so simple. Sometimes much more than words get lost in the translation. But as she learns to embrace México verdadero - the real Mexico - she discovers a people who give new meaning to larger than life, the fabulous strong women who rule the roost, the colourful macho men who think they do, and the invincible bonds between family, food and the spirit world. Always an outsider, this nomad at last feels she has come home.
Download or read book Learning and a Liberal Education written by Peter R. H. Slee and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The True History of The Conquest of New Spain written by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and frequent cruelty of Hernando Cortes and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezuma's Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New World. The concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins, history, and methods of the Spanish enterprise in the Americas; it also discusses the nature of the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs in Mexico, and compares Diaz's version of events to those of other contemporary chroniclers. Editorial glosses summarize omitted portions, and substantial footnotes explain those terms, names, and cultural references in Diaz's text that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. A chronology of the Conquest is included, as are a guide to major figures, a select bibliography, and three maps.
Download or read book The True History of the Conquest of New Spain written by Bernal Díaz del Castillo and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The True History of the Conquest of New Spain written by Bernal Díaz del Castillo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico (1519-1522); in this volume foot soldier Díaz joins Cortés' army.
Download or read book The True History of the Conquest of New Spain By Bernal Diaz del Castillo One of its Conquerors written by Alfred Percival Maudslay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books I-IV (1517-19), translated into English and edited, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay, M.A., Hon. Professor of Archaeology, National Museum, Mexico, concerning the discovery of Mexico and the expeditions of Francisco Hernández de Cordova and Hernan Cortés, the march inland, and the war in Tlaxcala. The edition includes a bibliography of Mexico, pp. 311-68. Continued in Second Series 24, 25, 30, and 40. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1908.
Download or read book Letters from Mexico written by Hernan Cortes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. The two introductions set the letters in context.
Download or read book A Rain of Darts written by Burr Cartwright Brundage and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the first serious scholarly attempt in nearly a century to put in narrative form the exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire. Although many native sources, often in translations with scholarly annotations. became available in the twentieth century, the corpus of this material was scattered and uncoordinated. Burr Cartwright Brundage has utilized these sources to produce a consecutive narrative that portrays direction and purpose in the evolution of the Aztec empire. A Rain of Darts is the first one-volume history of the Mexica, historically the most important of the Aztec peoples. The focus of the narrative is on the political state produced by the Mexica during their stormy history. The eleven Mexica reigns that preceded the Spanish Conquest are investigated, their triumphs and errors explained, and the lives of their great leaders illuminated where the sources allow. The narrative opens with the first appearance of the Mexica out of the arid north; it details their aimless wandering, the founding of the city of Mexico in the waters of Lake Tezcoco, their desperate struggle for independence (successfully achieved in 1428), and the flourishing of the new state and its curiously structured empire. This history concludes with an analysis of the character of Moteuczoma II, and investigates the final sickness of the Mexican state. Cortez and his small army of Spaniards are seen here for the first time in historical literature through the eyes of the people they conquered. The Mexica Aztecs remain at the center of the narrative. The Mexica were unable to build a tightly knit empire because of the elitist, international warrior class and its peculiar cult of war and sacrifice. To the Mexica, warfare and bloodshed were sacraments; the teuctli or knightly warrior was the priest of this cult. to which he was as loyal as to the state. In this lay the uniqueness of the Mexican state and the seeds of its tragic end in 1521.
Download or read book The exploration of the world The world outlined Seekers and traders Scientific exploration written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal D az del Castillo written by Davíd Carrasco and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva España, offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and religious forces that drove the great cultural encounter between Spain and the Americas known as the "conquest of Mexico." Besides containing important passages, scenes, and events excluded from other abridgements, this edition includes eight useful interpretive essays that address indigenous religions and cultural practices, sexuality during the early colonial period, the roles of women in indigenous cultures, and analysis of the political and economic purposes behind Diaz del Castillo's narrative. A series of maps illuminate the routes of the conquistadors, the organization of indigenous settlements, the struggle for the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, as well as the disastrous Spanish journey to Honduras. The information compiled for this volume offers increased accessibility to the original text, places it in a wider social and narrative context, and encourages further learning, research, and understanding.
Download or read book The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517 1521 written by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1928. 'Something more than an historical document of the first importance...his narrative is so readable that one's interest and admiration are equally divided between the stupendous events he records and the charming revelations of his own character.' Saturday Review. Four eye-witnesses of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards have left written records, but of these the present volume and the letters of Cortés (Volume 14) are by far the most important.
Download or read book University of California Publications in History written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Exploration Of The World written by Jules Verne and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jules Verne, in this chief of his works, has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventure of which we have any written record—to give the history, "from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley," of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most exciting episodes in the history of human enterprise. The wonderful journey of Marco Polo; the voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama; the conquests of Cortez and Pizarro; the old Arctic discoveries; the explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America—these exploits form a worthy subject for the most ambitious work of such a writer; and when he brings to the treatment of such material all the dash and vivid picluresqueness of his own creations, it may be imagined that he makes a book worth reading.
Download or read book The Jungle and the Damned written by Hassoldt Davis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hassoldt Davis (1907 1959) was an adventurer and travel writer whose work Ernest Hemingway once described as fantastic . . . magnificent. With his intrepid new wife, filmmaker Ruth Staudinger, Davis sets off on an improbable honeymoon, first to Devil s Island, and then down an unexplored river in the interior of French Guiana. The result is a swashbuckling saga that deserves a place on any adventure bookshelf."
Download or read book Deadly Baggage written by Al Sandine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1519, a few hundred Europeans led by Hernan Cortes sailed from Cuba to the Mexican mainland, where they encountered representatives of the Aztec Empire. Their Iberian history, culture and religion, and their experience in the Greater Antilles made conquest and riches the aim of these adventurers. They regarded themselves as heroes in a romantic crusade of good against evil. Each member of the expedition sought to acquire precious metals and to become a lord of enslaved native labor. Their horses and steel swords, aided by native disunity and susceptibility to Old World diseases, ensured their success. This analysis of the conquest of Mexico stands in contrast to previous narratives that either reduce the conquest to a contest between Cortes and Montezuma, or describe a near miraculous victory of European ingenuity and Western values over Indian superstition and savagery. The author re-frames the clash of civilizations in New World prehistory that left inhabitants at a disadvantage.
Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seekers and Traders written by Jules Verne and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seekers and Traders we have the brilliant romancer, Jules Verne, holding his fancy under control and speaking for once in simplest truthfulness. He who had so thoroughly read up in geographies and books of travel that he might make stories from them, was perhaps of all men best fitting for the task of telling in earnest what real men had really done in the demarcation of the world. In this volume there was no need for the writer to create romance. He had only to appreciate and make visible to others the romance which already existed in overflowing measure in the daring deeds of the great explorers.During the intervals of this work Verne was patiently gather fresh material for its completion. How seriously and thoroughly the labor of preparation was undertaken he himself points out for us. He says: ?In order to give this work all the accuracy possible, I have called in the aid of a man whom I with justice regard as one of the most competent geographers of the present day, M. Gabriel Marcel, attached to the BibliothPque Nationale. With the advantage of his acquaintance with several foreign languages which are unknown to me, we have been able to go to the fountain-head, and to draw all our information from absolutely original documents.?Contents:The Discoverers of Central AmericaThe First Voyage Round the WorldThe Polar Expeditions and the Search for the Northwest PassageVoyages of Adventure and Privateering WarfareMissionaries and SettlersMerchants and TouristsThe Pole and America
